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Transforming Health Care Through Prevention - Is Obesity a Choice?

Giles Yeo eating a donut
Dr Giles Yeo, BA PhD Institute of Metabolic Sciences, University of Cambridge
Date 17/01/2020 at 18.00 - 17/01/2020 at 19.00 Where Lee Hall, Â鶹ËÞÉáµçÊÓ¾çCollege

Fellow Dr Giles Yeo explains the science behind obesity and talks about ways to fight this large public health threat.

Giles Yeo eating a donut

It is clear that the cause of obesity is a result of eating more than you burn. It is physics. What is more complex to answer is why some people eat more than others? Differences in our genetic make-up mean some of us are slightly more hungry all the time and so eat more than others. In contrast to the prevailing view, obesity is not a choice. People who are obese are not bad or lazy; rather, they are fighting their biology. Society has to accept this, before we can form successful strategies to tackle this largest of public health problems.

 

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