Rethinking obesity : nurture via nature? / ShortCutstv.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Parsons, Claire (Presenter), on-screen presenter.

Smith, Jennifer, on-screen presenter.

ShortCutsTV (Firm), distributor, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obesity.

Human biology.

Human genetics.

Nature and nurture.

Genre:

Educational films.

Short films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 minutes)

Other Title:

Rethinking obesity : nature via nurture?

Place of Publication:

Leicester, England : Shortcuts TV, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

This video 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.

Participant:

Presenters: Claire Parsons, Jennifer Smith.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 07, 2018).

OCLC:

1081433012