So, you've all heard about the obesity epidemic

In addition, because obesity is not a unicentric epidemic, there's not a Patient Zero of the obesity epidemic if we find that guy, there was a spread of obesity out from him it's a multicentric epidemic.

It had become trendy to speak about the obesity epidemic.

Now there is an epidemic of obesity two thirds of adults and 15 percent of kids.

I want to talk a little bit about the obesity epidemic, because it really is a problem.

I know it sounds crazy because we're obviously in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but hear me out.

A lot of complexity, a lot is happening just in this 30 year period that includes the obesity epidemic.

It's an epidemic.

And I'll talk more about this, but the real epidemic isn't just heart disease or obesity or smoking it's loneliness and depression.

I suffer from obesity.

You treat the obesity.

Unfortunately, over the past quarter century, epidemic obesity has made our two ton steel cars gain weight twice as fast as we have.

And, along with my collaborator, James Fowler, we began to wonder whether obesity really was epidemic and could it spread from person to person

A new global epidemic.

The HlV epidemic peaked.

It was an epidemic!

Rudeness is epidemic, milady.

This is the epidemic in Mozambique. This is an epidemic in northern Tanzania.

An epidemic has broken out.

An epidemic disease broke out.

The epidemic is getting worse.

And of course, these endocrine disruptors are things that are implicated in the breast cancer epidemic, the obesity epidemic, the two and a half year drop in the average age of onset of puberty in young girls and other related things.

His prompt action prevented an epidemic.

like obesity and juvenile diabetes, premature puberty.

And we have a terrible chlamydia epidemic terrible chlamydia epidemic which sticks around for many years.

One case of this is an epidemic.

Shame is an epidemic in our culture.

Teen pregnancy, like I said, is epidemic.

Now it's about 50 . Smoking, obesity, car accidents.

A serious epidemic has broken out in Beijing.

An epidemic of suicides, 52 in two days...

But in my world, it's called reduced obesity and diabetes.

I just don't believe it's an epidemic like this.

This is about 1990, peak of the crack epidemic.

Nick Lane may be turning into a walking epidemic.

Number four and five were childhood obesity and diabetes related issues.

Now, most researchers believe obesity is the cause of insulin resistance.

What if obesity isn't the cause of insulin resistance at all?

So the problematic food system is affecting both hunger and obesity.

These are just for information hypertension, diabetes, obesity, lack of exercise.

This was found behind the refrigerator in the obesity murder scene.

The four Harpies of the sea shipwreck, epidemic, mutiny, murder.

I'd hypothesize that it might be our increased intake of refined grains, sugars and starches that's driving this epidemic of obesity and diabetes, but through insulin resistance, you see, and not necessarily through just overeating and under exercising.

What if some of our fundamental ideas about obesity are just wrong?

We started a childhood obesity initiative with the Heart Association in America.