Best Obesity Research and Prevention (Video) Podcasts

Ranked #1

The Diet Trap: Why You Should Never Go on a Diet Again and What To Do Instead

Millions attempt some form of diet yet only a small fraction achieve permanent weight loss. Neuroscientists and science ... Read more

10 Jul 2018

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1hr 20mins

Ranked #2

Welcome and Opening Remarks - 2016 COAST/SSEW Symposium - Food and Addiction: Environment Policy and Individual Factors

Elissa Epel and Janet Napolitano kick off the 2016 COAST SSEW symposium on food and addiction. Series: "UCSF Consortium ... Read more

30 Dec 2016

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10mins

Ranked #3

Strategic Research in Preventing Hunger and Obesity - Hunger for Change: Food Insecurity Stress and Obesity 2017 COAST/SSEW Symposium

Kelly Brownell explores why research doesn’t get turned into policy and why perfect research may not create systemic cha... Read more

22 Dec 2017

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40mins

Ranked #4

Captured! A Conversation With David Kessler On How Our Attention Is Wired For Food Addiction - 2016 COAST/SSEW Symposium - Food and Addiction: Environment Policy and Individual Factors

New York Times reporter Anahad O’Connor sits down with former FDA commissioner Dr. David Kessler for discussion on the f... Read more

31 Jan 2017

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43mins

David Kessler

Ranked #5

Food Insecurity and Stress: From the Inside Out - Hunger for Change: Food Insecurity Stress and Obesity 2017 COAST/SSEW Symposium

Cindy Leung explains the novel mechanism of stress in the relation between food insecurity and health. Food insecurity h... Read more

8 Mar 2018

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27mins

Ranked #6

Understanding Obesity - Eating for Health (and Pleasure): The UCSF Guide to Good Nutrition

Dr. Robert Baron, Professor of Medicine at UCSF, explains the prevalence of obesity and the trends in the rates of obes... Read more

25 Aug 2014

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49mins

Ranked #7

Eating for Two Trillion: Dietary Intake Shapes Our Resident Gut Microbes - 2015 COAST/SSEW Symposium - Gut Feelings: The Microbiome the Mind and Metabolic Health

Humans are each home to trillions of microbes that have a widespread impact on our physiology and predisposition to dise... Read more

24 Feb 2016

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48mins

Ranked #8

Dr. Neal Baer - Hunger for Change: Food Insecurity Stress and Obesity 2017 COAST/SSEW Symposium

Dr. Neal Baer is a pediatrician, researcher and director at UCLA’s Global Media Center for Social Impact. He explores wh... Read more

22 Dec 2017

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10mins

Neal Baer

Ranked #9

Childhood Stress Pregnancy Weight and Transmission of Weight - 2014 COAST/SSEW Symposium - Stress Obesity and Pregnancy: The Next Generation

Barbara Abrams DrPH, RD. Professor of Epidemiology, Maternal and Child Health, and Public Health Nutrition; Head, Epidem... Read more

17 Sep 2014

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33mins

Ranked #10

Crowd Sourcing Microbiome-Mind Interactions with American Gut - 2015 COAST/SSEW Symposium - Gut Feelings: The Microbiome the Mind and Metabolic Health

Rob Knight is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, with an additional appointment in the Department of Computer ... Read more

3 Feb 2016

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48mins

Ranked #11

UCSF's New Food Industry Documents Archive Part 1

The UCSF Industry Documents Library (IDL) now includes the Food Industry Documents Archive, a brand new collection of ov... Read more

2 Jan 2019

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1hr 28mins

Ranked #12

Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes - Health Matters

Obesity is on the rise in the US. What is the connection between this disease and type 2 diabetes? Dr. Alan Saltiel join... Read more

18 Feb 2016

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28mins

Ranked #13

Close Friends: The Microbiome and the Immune System - 2015 COAST/SSEW Symposium - Gut Feelings: The Microbiome the Mind and Metabolic Health

Susan Lynch, PhD. Associate Professor, Medicine/Gastroenterology, UC San Francisco. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity... Read more

10 Feb 2016

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27mins

Ranked #14

Dietary Guidelines: From Pyramid to Plate - Eating for Health (and Pleasure): The UCSF Guide to Good Nutrition

65% of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kill more people than underweight. Register... Read more

4 Aug 2014

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56mins

Ranked #15

The Problem with the Scale

Dr. Mimi Guarneri, President of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, explains the term “skinny fat” and shows... Read more

29 Jul 2016

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4mins

Ranked #16

Pregnancy: A Teachable Moment for Weight Control and Obesity - 2014 COAST/SSEW Symposium - Stress Obesity and Pregnancy: The Next Generation

Suzanne Phelan, PhD. Associate Professor, Kinesiology Department Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Series: "UCSF Consortium for... Read more

24 Sep 2014

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32mins

Ranked #17

Stress and Obesity - The Exposome and Metabolic Health - 2018 COAST/SSEW Symposium

Barbara Laraia, PhD, UC Berkeley, reveals why neighborhoods and stress have a major impact on obesity and pregnancy. Ser... Read more

4 Oct 2018

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9mins

Ranked #18

Food Addiction: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going? - 2016 COAST/SSEW Symposium - Food and Addiction: Environment Policy and Individual Factors

Mark S. Gold, MD is a world renowned expert on addiction-related diseases and has worked to develop models for understan... Read more

17 Jan 2017

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41mins

Ranked #19

The Social Exposome - The Exposome and Metabolic Health - 2018 COAST/SSEW Symposium

Aric Prather, PhD, UCSF Professor and Co-Director of the Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study, and Treatment (COAST)... Read more

3 Oct 2018

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13mins

Ranked #20

Maternal Metabolism in Pregnancy Long-term Effects on Population Health - 2014 COAST/SSEW Symposium - Stress Obesity and Pregnancy: The Next Generation

Patrick M. Catalano M.D., Director of Center for Reproductive Health at MetroHealth and the Clinical Research Unit of th... Read more

3 Sep 2014

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58mins