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TED Talks: Season 2013

2013x127 Peter Attia: Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem?
TV-PG

  • 2013-06-25T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
As a young surgeon, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the fact that she needed a foot amputation. But years later, Attia received an unpleasant medical surprise that led him to wonder: is our understanding of diabetes right? Could the precursors to diabetes cause obesity, and not the other way around? A look at how assumptions may be leading us to wage the wrong medical war. Both a surgeon and a self-experimenter, Peter Attia hopes to ease the diabetes epidemic by challenging what we think we know and improving the scientific rigor in nutrition and obesity research.
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