Rethinking Obesity: Nature via Nurture
Catalogue Number: STV001
Producer: Shortcutstv Ltd
Producing Agencies: Shortcutstv Ltd
Subject: Health and Medicine, Psychology, Science, Social Sciences
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Copyright Year: 2017
Running Time: 16:00
Closed Captions: Yes
This film explores an interactionist approach to obesity.
Part 1: shows how cultural and environmental changes have altered our relationship with food and created an ‘obesogenic environment’. But why isn’t everyone obese?
Part 2: filmed at the Dept. of Neuroscience at Cambridge University, Professor Giles Yeo explains the role of genetics in making some people more vulnerable to hunger and obesity than others.
Part 3: looks at new research from University College London that illustrates how the interaction of environmental change and genetic vulnerability is creating a growing cycle of obesity that some experts believe could make the current generation of children the first to die before their parents.
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