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What Are the Contributing Factors in Obesity?

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

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