The family's obese.

Many Americans are obese.

And, by the end, you're going to see clusters of obese and non obese individuals within the network.

Tom is obese, isn't he?

At a BMI above 30, these subjects are deemed metabolically healthy obese. Like obese patients suffering from cardio metabolic risks (the metabolically abnormal obese ), they have high visceral and subcutaneous fat mass, though metabolically healthy obese patients sometimes have excessive body fat but lower fat infiltration in the liver and in skeletal muscle.

They used some of the morbidly artist footage, a close up of Chad's shoes in the middle of the highway.

She's obese before she even gets to primary school.

So, if you look at this image, right away you might be able to see that there are clusters of obese and non obese people in the image.

When we watch people become obese, where do men get fat?

A billion of us are obese, while a further billion starve.

Even worse, what if blaming the obese means we're blaming the victims?

There's a billion people obese or overweight and a billion people hungry.

Two thirds of this room, today, in America, are statistically overweight or obese.

But you know what? Her father, who was obese, died in her arms, And then the second most important man in her life, her uncle, died of obesity, and now her step dad is obese.

We know that 30 million obese Americans in the United States don't have insulin resistance.

If you take the obese mouse and give it an angiogenesis inhibitor, it loses weight.

This here shows, on the Y axis, the increase in the probability that a person is obese given that a social contact of theirs is obese and, on the X axis, the degrees of separation between the two people.

It says that, if your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher.

But the differences between the metabolically healthy obese and the metabolically abnormal obese are inconsistent. And, though age, sex, ethnicity, waist circumference, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol consumption all correlate with metabolic phenotypes, the BMI is unable to distinguish between the two groups.

The percentage of overweight respondents, particularly those who were obese, shows a statistically significant increase over the years.

It's a little bit like an obese person having to use most of their energy to move their obesity. OK?

BMI categories (underweight, overweight or obese) from general reading table are inappropriate for athletes, children, the elderly, and the infirm.

Not to beat a dead horse, but this is a global food system where there's a billion people hungry and billion people obese.

And the next bar over, the red line, says if your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher.

What if being obese is just a metabolic response to something much more threatening, an underlying epidemic, the one we ought to be worried about?

So the top curve shows the body weight of a genetically obese mouse that eats nonstop until it turns fat, like this furry tennis ball.

And we found that if your friend becomes obese, it increases your risk of obesity by about 57 percent in the same given time period.

We know from the Framingham studies, that if your three best friends are obese there is a 50 percent better chance that you'll be overweight.

In addition, if your body size, if your BMI, your body mass index, is above 30 if you're clinically obese we also colored the dots yellow.

But, if you start to look at it, that red, that dark color there, more than 75 percent of the population of those countries are obese.

So in the United States today, over 65 percent of people are either overweight or obese, and now it's a big problem with our children as well.

And then the next line over says if your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher.

Two thirds of adults are overweight or obese, and diabetes in kids and 30 year olds has increased 70 percent in the last 10 years. It s no joke it s real.

It's the only possible explanation of why humans, if they're very unlucky, can become grossly obese, in a way that would be totally impossible for any other primate, physically impossible.

The really, truly interesting thing about this is that we can't take these obese mice and make them lose more weight than what the normal mouse's weight is supposed to be.

One third of all Americans are now obese. The rest of the world will eventually follow unless countries restrict dangerous corporate practices, including advertising unhealthy and addictive foods to young children.

Until countries create legal means of rewarding donors, the fates of Third World donors and the patients who need their organs to survive will remain morbidly entwined. What better way to mark World Kidney Day than for global health leaders to take a bold step and urge countries to experiment with donor rewards?

So if you can be obese and not have insulin resistance, and you can be lean and have it, this suggests that obesity may just be a proxy for what's going on.

And I think there's evidence and it's not the only reason this evidence exists, but I think it's a huge cause we are the most in debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

One in four people in China is overweight, more than 60 million are obese, and the rate of overweight children has increased almost 30 fold since 1985. Everywhere you look, from Buffalo to Beijing, you can see ballooning bellies.

Conversely, we know that six million lean people in the United States are insulin resistant, and by the way, they appear to be at even greater risk for those metabolic diseases I mentioned a moment ago than their obese counterparts.

And we know that as you get older in life, if you're obese when you're younger, that can lead to chronic diseases that not only reduce your quality of life, but are a tremendous economic burden on our health care system.

EUGENE, OREGON The recent news that two thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese and the number continues to grow brings to mind a question that has bothered me since the 1970 s Why aren t we all starving?

The risks posed by this epidemic are manifold, but the main one is that childhood obesity begets adult obesity, with significantly increased risks of diabetes and heart disease. Indeed, experts estimate that more than 18 of all adults in the advanced economies are obese.

The causes of obesity are complex, and the science of understanding human behavior is embryonic but it is not hyperbole to call the problem an epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 18 of children aged 6 11 in the US are not just overweight, but obese.