Professor Katherine Samaras explains why an estimated 2 in 3 (67%) Australians aged 18 and over are overweight or obese.
Professor Samaras is a consultant physician and endocrinologist at St Vincent's Hospital, with a mandate to improve physical and mental health and well-being through optimising nutritional therapy, physical activity and, where necessary, appropriate pharmacological therapy. She is also currently laboratory head at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
0:00 - Introduction
0:25 - What is obesity?
1:16 - What are the key drivers of obesity?
2:07 - How to control weight
2:32 - How our ancestors ate
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