America’s Obesity Crisis: Dr. Explains Problem Plaguing 75% of U.S. Adults | Amanpour and Company

[@SenorJuan2023]

Ban junk/fast food advertising like we did for cigarettes. High taxes on soda and junk food in the grocery stores.

[@5kids1goldfish]

Only nutritive foods should be allowed in the markets. Companies intentionally designed food products to be addictive and non-nutritive.

[@elbarca223]

Two things: Stop eating too much (quantity), stop eating junk food (quality). Also, we must make some policy changes to address the prevalence of junk food in this country. If we have regulations for air quality, if we have regulations for water quality, why can't we have regulations on food quality?

[@5kids1goldfish]

@SenorJuan2023 another news video from Amanpour talks about the new push for weight-loss drugs because three fourths of Americans have obesity. Such drugs do not correct the underlying malnutrition. Our bodies crave the nutrients we need, in spite of excess calories we consume. We still lack what we need, and the excess cannot be managed in a healthy way. But this idea of giving us all expensive weight-loss drugs instead of helping us access a healthy diet is a NIGHTMARE SCENARIO!!!

[@Casey-ip7ug]

Use those taxes and fines to subsidize tech and programs in whole foods to both make them cheaper and more environmentally friendly. Oh and educational programs.

[@2serve4Christ]

FYI: #Ozempic and #Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders [included Dr. Fatima Cody #Stanford, an associate professor of medicine at #Harvard Medical School] to get #Medicare's favor.

[@markgigiel2722]

Imagine fixing our toxic food system instead of using drugs. We treat symptoms instead of actually fixing problems because it's WAY more profitable. America is SO broken.

[@TheVafa95]

@@markgigiel2722 toxicity, sociopsychological problems, economic problem of widening income between ultrarich and poor, are not at the end of a pill bottle. Unless they teach and practice honesty problems will increase exponentially.

[@hammerhead2362]

How about both. Ozempic works. So does exercise and clean eating

[@TheVafa95]

@hammerhead2362 The problem is not with giving Ozempic; that is acceptable. The issue lies in their mindset, their priorities, and special interests. The problem is with the system they have created and its inflexibility. The problem is with dishonesty in all areas and with implementing quick fixes without considering long-term consequences.

[@karld1791]

We ought to stop subsidizing crops insurance for grains like corn that encourages farmers to grow corn making high fructose corn syrup cheaper on the public dime.

[@karld1791]

We should stop passing single use zoning laws at the local level that spread homes and businesses apart that forces everyone to drive greater distances. This is linked to less exercise and increased weight. And it costs more to maintain suburban sprawl than walkable neighborhoods.

[@mindfulbreathinginstitute4252]

Treating the symptoms, but not the cause of obesity. We need to reduce sugar consumption in processed foods and get people to pay more attention to eating food that is not processed.

[@TheVafa95]

Hook people to junk food, then pay for their medicine to lose weight, an excellent plan. Just educate and make it available for people to eat plant food. Has government negotiated the prices of these expensive drugs? It is a sad situation.

[@2serve4Christ]

YEP. #Ozempic and #Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders [included Dr. Fatima Cody #Stanford, an associate professor of medicine at #Harvard Medical School] to get #Medicare's favor.

[@Noneofyourbusiness-pf8xp]

People do not eat because they are hungry. They eat to entertain themselves. If you want to help stop showing food commercials every 10 minutes on all TV channels

[@patriciaaznavourian3014]

Obesity is a disease not a failure in someone's personality . It's not all abt the food. It's a complicated disease similar to other addictions. In the old days they blamed the alcholic for being weak, why don't they just stop. Then science found out its a disease, impacts the brain. Mind body and spirit, medication is part of the solution for obesity

[@patriciaaznavourian3014]

Did you watch this video? She's explaining the truth of obesity which is a killer disease but know one cares. It's medical issue. not mental or behavioral.

[@petepruitt7196]

My generation wasn’t obese. And it wasn’t that we exercised all that much! Food Companies!

[@davidcarbone3385]

No doubt it is primarily the fault of food companies that add chemicals that cause hunger regardless of how much food is eaten, so charge the food companies a billion dollars a year per food company. Also drug companies and polluting companies with forever chemicals, etc. Sounds like your generation was also the cigarette smoking generation; cigarettes helped reduce weight at the expense of causing various cancers and other health issues. The Great Depression and WW II caused a lot of stress; for many, that stress was introduced into the family to the adverse affect of kids who are now grown up and obese in part due to that family stress.

[@WillN2Go1]

This is just the first OxyContin. Business models built on carb addiction. 20 years ago I considered myself more informed, more disciplined and more discriminatory of what I ate. I was still 45 pounds overweight. I started exercising doing something I loved so I did it hard. Unburdened by a relationship that wanted to eat out, have snacks.... I only ate when I felt like it. What I was aware of but not way was that when I exercised hard for three hours, halfway through I thought I could keep going. But after the whole work out I got in my car drove home and on the way recovered, and didn't feel hungry. I liked it. Shed the 45 pounds and put on a lot of muscle. Later I learned I had become fat adapted. My body was using fat for fuel. Living on carbs our bodies are not used to it. Back in the day people were more keto than the obese generations. 6 years ago I started doing a keto diet, and most of my calories are fats. Carb addicts like heroic addicts are not undisciplined -- they're junkies. Once we lower the carbs in our diets but replacing them with good fat calories, we suddenly realize hunger is just a signal, not a fire alarm. (I just had to remind myself to eat my first food of the day.) The good part of this is adding the fats satiate hunger, we miss the carbs but the impulse is not overwhelming. If we count our calories and exercise. Walk slow? Then walk for four hours. Don't have the time? Visit a cemetery. They have plenty of time.

[@patriciaaznavourian3014]

What is your generation? I'm a baby boomer and obesity is rampant, I am one myself

[@billmago7991]

"how did you survive the obesity epedemic Pop?"......."i dont know, there were burgers and fried chicken on every street corner."

[@kevinn1158]

Fascinating information. I'd like to add, in North America, and in particular America, the available food options are very heavily processed food. Take out fast food and food in the grocery store. Shop and buy your food from the perimeter of the grocery store. And walk everyday. Processed, canned food are awful. Even those heavily processed "bagged" bread is awful. High in preservatives, salt, sugar, fat. And most fast food and deep fried food is the devil. You want fast food, go eat at an Asian place.

[@neilifill4819]

Such great information and insight.

[@sabine8419]

How about changing the fattening dietary guidelines instead? How about disincentivising ultraprocessed food?

[@DaciaProject]

High fructose corn syrup. . .

[@paisleylfc6367]

Stop the USA drug companies charging so much, these drugs are cheaper in other countries.

[@Amiltu]

Glp1 saved me big time. Hypothyroidism made it impossible to lose weight I had gained from having two ankle surgeries. I dieted and exercised with a trainer for 6 years and lost 20 lbs. I am gluten free dairy free and only eat organic foods and still could not lose the weight ! I lost 100 lbs in a year with glp1. What’s crazy is I ate more calories losing weight on glp1 then I did without it. If you have insulin resistance from hypothyroidism or another disease this stuff works ! There are side effects and you have to really monitor your blood work. Overall my blood work has improved. I do not think it is for already thin ppl with no medical issues to lose 20 lbs to be a size 2.

[@Splenda257]

I work so hard to watch my weight, working out, running, intermittent fasting. I don't care more about my health than others, but I'm superficial and want to look good. The shallow reasons are the best reasons.

[@patriciaaznavourian3014]

Just like not everyone is an addict or alcholic same goes for obesity, it's not just food intake and excessive, research has proven that now. Be thankful that works for u

[@scottnelson1713]

Three fourths of American adults are obese? Are you sure that shouldn't be "obese or overweight"? It takes a Body Mass Index of 30 to be obese, but just 25 to be overweight. I'm stuck at 26 something for my BMI, but I'm far from obese. I wish people talking about weight would keep the two separate.

[@TheCALMInstitute]

ok the woman has consulted and worked with pharmaceutical companies on obesity drugs…and she says we need to get them covered by Medicaid…and prescribe them more often…we’re just gonna trot right by that BLATANT conflict of interest without more questioning than this? What an embarrassment. Whether she’s right or not, this could have been handled better.

[@ShenanK]

You can tell that she is an excellent teacher/professor in addition to being an outstanding doctor

[@markmcrarland133]

To me she actually sounds like a salesperson selling a treatment and not a cure for an unnecessary disease!😮

[@BusinessandFinance-ym5bk]

she is a textbook swamp person. she doesn't address the root cause (fast food, industrial food) of the crisis. instead she is just trying to sell more pharmaceuticals.

[@splashesin8]

She is spot on with all the multi factors, of the puzzle. So many factors involved with the initial push of first intentional weight gain, which kicks the body's wild settings gyroscope of mechanisms in. External factors that are extreme lead to gain as a matter of survival initially. Then the roller coaster begins. Ironically it can sometimes reverse as a matter of other events, that lend to major lifestyle change in general not even related to food, but that come together eventually bringing most of the multi factors closer to the set point before the first major change occurred. So much of it is autoñomic function.

[@gailmiller1732]

Excellent interview!! This doctor explained in easy to understand terms so many of the factors the obese population is facing. Thank you for bringing light to this topic that is so often misunderstood.

[@2serve4Christ]

FYI: #Ozempic and #Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders [included Dr. Fatima Cody #Stanford, an associate professor of medicine at #Harvard Medical School] to get #Medicare's favor.

[@elenaalexander6138]

I began watching this, but simply cannot: This is to hand the argument over to RFK Jr. I am not casting aspersions upon Dr. Stanford, and perhaps Hari Srinivasan brings this up, but why are these drugs so expensive, and how big a profit margin do the pharmaceutical companies have to put on the books, and into the pockets of their executives? Of course it's a multi-pronged problem, but let us not ignore the part that greed plays.

[@athanatic]

Save the kids from HFCS (High-Fructose Corn Syrup)! It nearly killed me.

[@NMalteC]

Treating symptoms, sure. What's done with respect to treating the cause? Obesity isn't something you inherit (in the overwhelming number of cases)

[@billhuff6972]

It would take me about a day to read all of the long medical words and terms that she can rattle off in about 10 seconds off the top of her head.

[@markmcrarland133]

Well of course, she's doing it for the money actually.

[@sennasennina4891]

TALK ABOUT THE SIDE EFFECTS OF OZEMPIC.

[@gallimaufry1446]

absolutely. i call these drugs medical bariatric surgery.

[@2serve4Christ]

FYI: #Ozempic and #Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders [included Dr. Fatima Cody #Stanford, an associate professor of medicine at #Harvard Medical School] to get #Medicare's favor.

[@DesmondSamuel-n1t]

Praise to God Almighty!!!!'m favoured, $140k every 3weeks! I can now give back to the locals in my community and also support God's work and the church. God bless America 🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@OluchukwuEbube]

God bless you more abundantly for your generosity But then, what do you do? How do you come about that in that period?

[@DesmondSamuel-n1t]

Thanks to Mrs Kate Elizabeth

[@JamesBondBrown-z6l]

I raised 75k and Kate Elizabeth Becherer is to be thanked. I got my self my dream car just last weekend, My journey with her started after my best friend came back from New York City

[@JFranklinHelton]

This is a definition of God's unending provisions for his people. God remains faithful to his words. I receive this for my household❤️

[@LoisHansen-k4r]

I know that woman (Kate Elizabeth Becherer) If you were born and raised in new York you'd know too, she's my family's Broker for 3yrs till now and a very good one if you asked me. No doubt she is a good woman.

[@Maliceless100]

Keep feeding the drug _(and salt and sugar)_ addiction Dr. Fatima.

[@wilmerwalton5089]

I'm so happy to hear that America's crisis is obesity, rather than chronic stupidity, or maybe being stupid correlates with obesity. Both are on the rise.

[@sennasennina4891]

STOP EATING PROCESSED AND FAST FOOD!

[@markmcrarland133]

I have several comments I'd like to make but I'd like to start off with saying you can actually tell how much a person is actually lying by how many times they say actually. I just like to point out that poor people get the cheapest food because it is what they can afford and it is horrible for your health so poor people are going to be sick sick sick and now they want to sell you medication to fix that it makes me sick!!

[@2serve4Christ]

#Ozempic and #Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders [included Dr. Fatima Cody #Stanford, an associate professor of medicine at #Harvard Medical School] to get #Medicare's favor.

[@bulletpoints556]

Wrong solution to real problem. Typical in failed healthcare system. This doctor is a quack.

[@Ali-e5h1b]

7:30 - so a person that works a lot of nights will gain a baby face? They'll chubby up? Looks almost like weight gain (layman) associated with alcoholism?

[@Noneofyourbusiness-pf8xp]

My, highly scientific, solution that also does not increase our taxes and saves Medicare, is to shut your mouth

[@patriciaaznavourian3014]

This dr is brilliant and so articulate and knowledgeble, she should be in charge of Dept ofHealth and Human services not RFKJr who knows little abt the science of Obesity.

[@circa1890]

No one talking about the PFAS in over 50% of US tap water. Sure, is the US diet bad? Yep, but as of 2024, obesogens have overtaken diet and lifestyle as the leading cause of obesity. At least give people in the US a chance by taking these types of chemicals out of our environment. 😢

[@KTravRuNEr]

She also makes money off this drug sales

[@TheVafa95]

Any evidence?

[@KTravRuNEr]

@@TheVafa95you can look up every single doctor and payments to them by industry. Pharma, tech, etc

[@romiagua2746]

Isso tudo é o resultado DA VIDA BOA.

[@Mltms1444]

فاطمٌ فاطمٌ

[@really2345]

Americans who are obese should exercise and eat properly. I follow both tenets and am not overweight. I don't want one tax dollar to be given to the obese. The idea that drugs are going to solve the problem is asinine. Further, no tax money should be used if the obese suffer from diseases related to obesity. Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, etc should NOT be covered by medicare/medicaid.

[@davidcarbone3385]

LOL now that's funny!

[@karld1791]

We ought to stop spending tax dollars for things that encourage obesity. Those include subsidizing crop insurance for corn that is used to make high fructose corn syrup. Our zoning laws spread homes and businesses out in suburban sprawl that requires a lot of public spending on roads and infrastructure. Then people drive more and walk less and get heavier. At least we should stop spending tax money encouraging obesity.

[@davidcarbone3385]

@@karld1791 Yes, HFCS has been proven to be a killer of health and wellness despite marketing by the industry saying otherwise. Farmers need to be subsidized to grow healthy food, and food industries should be severely punished for turning food into chemicals that ruin health and wellness.

[@Frederique41]

Too much jargon 😮

[@Wolloiz]

How much we store is a matter of calories we eat, nothing else. So if someone is controlling his/her calories he/she will loose fat or will increase the weight. It has absolutly nothing to do with the brain, the same calories the same outcome for the person. Yes there are high processed food they taste good and we will eat more because it tastes so good. But in die end when the calories are controlled you will loose fat! it doesnt matter what you eat

[@TheVafa95]

Brain produces hunger and satiety hormones.

[@austinlevreault6211]

I wouldn’t say it’s just calories. I’m a long distance runner, (I have a ten mike run video on my KZbin Channel.) I find 12 miles a week for me is the bare minimum before I start gaining weight. Sleep plays into it. Stress. Yes, I do count calories but for that to matter I have to drop my caloric intake to a very low level. (You kinda have to think of snacks as meals.) OMAD one meal a day is perfectly feasible in the USA just because of how dense our calories are. Hunger and stress feel similar.

[@TheVafa95]

@austinlevreault6211 if gov. does not address root cause of this and any other problem, they transform into some other problem. Sociopsychological problems are not solved by injections and pills.

[@Wolloiz]

@@austinlevreault6211 In the end it is a matter of calories. Every Person has his individual Energy Balance but in the End the only Thing that matters are calories. Sure it is much more harder with high processed food without nutrients and a dens of calories. And there is also the problem i see, that there are no real options than fastfood in a lot of places in the US (I`m fortunately from Europe and here it is all different).

[@Wolloiz]

@@TheVafa95 I don´t know if it has to do with the government. That is a really lacking explanaiton. The real Problem is the Industry and the lacking supplies of affordable healthy foods! And this has more to do with the lacking of governmental influence!

[@traydevon]

The problem is people eating all day whenever they feel like it which our ancestors never did, and eating genetically modified food instead of organic non-gmo food. #TheEnd

[@Emlizardo]

Genetically modified food has nothing to do with increased weight gain.

[@traydevon]

@ GMO, inorganic food usually lacks the nutrients of non-GMO, organic food, so people who eat it will eat a lot more often because they won’t feel full as long, which will lead to weight gain.

[@Emlizardo]

@@traydevon GMO food is not "inorganic" and does not lack the nutrients of non-GMO food.

[@traydevon]

@ I didn’t say it was, which is why I used BOTH words, DUH. Food can be BOTH non-GMO and organic or either, just like it can be BOTH GMO and inorganic or either, DUH.

[@Emlizardo]

@@traydevon You reply makes no sense. Please stop spreading falsehoods.

[@raylotfi1318]

We do respect to AMANPOUR if would be NICE to mention that people consume less avoiding FAT that is alternative to medications. CONSUME LESS & EXERCISE .90% of FAT don't start with less food consumption 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗