What Are the Contributing Factors in Obesity? (0:34)
A multitude of factors contribute to the development of obesity, from environmental to genetic causes. Learn more in this video with HealthMaker Daniel Kelly, MD.
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This obesity pandemic has occurred in a very short period of time, indicating, of course, that there are environmental and lifestyle issues, that the combination of a genetic predisposition and whatever socio-economic, psychological, societal type of things that have occurred, we are experiencing an imbalance in the amount of calories being put to us compared to what is being expended.
Daniel Kelly, MD, is senior vice president, Tavistock Distinguished Professor and scientific director of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona. He specializes in heart disease, metabolic Syndrome, obesity and diabetes.
