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The weight of the nation : confronting America's obesity epidemic / Dan Chaykin. Videorecording.

Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : HBO Home Video, 2012.Description: 3 videodiscs (approximately 276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0780695089
Other title:
  • Confronting America's obesity epidemic
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC628
Contents:
Disc 1: Consequences ; Choices -- Disc 2: Children in crisis ; Challenges -- Disc 3: Bonus shorts include twelve comprehensive segments such as Healthy mom, healthy baby: the risks of excess weight ; Obesity and type 2 diabetes ; Stigma: the human cost of obesity.
Summary: Developed in partnership with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the National Academies of Science, in association with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and with support from Kaiser Permanente and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, The Weight of the Nation is one of the largest public health campaigns on obesity the nation has seen to date.
Item type: Audiovisual Item
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"To win, we have to lose" --Container.

Disc 1: Consequences ; Choices --
Disc 2: Children in crisis ; Challenges --
Disc 3: Bonus shorts include twelve comprehensive segments such as Healthy mom, healthy baby: the risks of excess weight ; Obesity and type 2 diabetes ; Stigma: the human cost of obesity.


Developed in partnership with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the National Academies of Science, in association with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and with support from Kaiser Permanente and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, The Weight of the Nation is one of the largest public health campaigns on obesity the nation has seen to date.