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The Obesity System: Why Genetics, Epigenetics, and Environment Are the Real Story - Dr. Evan Nadler
We've been told that obesity is a choice. A lack of willpower. A personal failure.
But what if that's not just wrong—what if it's actively harmful?
Dr. Evan Nadler has spent more than two decades challenging one of the most pervasive and damaging assumptions in modern medicine: that obesity is primarily a lifestyle issue. He served as Co-Director of the Children's National Obesity Programs and Director of the Child and Adolescent Weight Loss Surgery Program at Children's National Hospital from 2009 until 2023, building and directing what became the nation's largest pediatric weight management…
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