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The Weight of the Nation, the Glossary

The Weight of the Nation is a four-part documentary series produced by American cable television network HBO.^[1]

16 relations: Cable television, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Documentary film, Epidemiology of obesity, Francis Collins, HBO, HBO Documentary Films, Kelly D. Brownell, National Academy of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Robert Lustig, Rudolph Leibel, Samuel Klein (doctor), Sarah Teale, Sheila Nevins, United States.
Documentary films about obesity
Obesity in television
Obesity in the United States

Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Epidemiology of obesity

Obesity has been observed throughout human history.

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Francis Collins

Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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HBO Documentary Films

HBO Documentary Films is an American production and distribution company, a division of the cable television network HBO that produces non-fiction feature films and miniseries.

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Kelly D. Brownell

Kelly David Brownell (born October 31, 1951) is a clinical psychologist and scholar of public health and public policy at Duke University whose work focuses on obesity and food policy.

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National Academy of Medicine

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), known as the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

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Robert Lustig

Robert H. Lustig (born 1957) is an American pediatric endocrinologist.

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Rudolph Leibel

Rudolph Leibel (born 1942) is the Christopher J. Murphy Professor of Diabetes Research, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, and Director of the Division of Molecular Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics.

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Samuel Klein (doctor)

Samuel Klein is a doctor and nutritional specialist known for his research into weight loss and the causes of obesity.

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Sarah Teale

Sarah Teale is a British-American documentary film producer and director, known for her Emmy nominated HBO documentaries Hacking Democracy, ''Dealing Dogs'', The Weight of the Nation and ''Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections''.

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Sheila Nevins

Sheila Nevins (born April 6, 1939) is an American television producer and former head of MTV Documentary Films division of MTV Entertainment Studios.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight_of_the_Nation