Obesity Research and Prevention (Audio)

Managing Obesity with New Medications

Dr. Robert Baron explores current strategies for treating obesity, emphasizing evidence-based approaches to diagnosis, lifestyle change, medication, and long-term weight maintenance. He explains the …

00:57:06 | Fri 15 Aug 2025

For Weight Loss: Lifestyle Change

Having a skilled primary care clinician will go a long way to maintaining your health and wellness. Join Dr. Diana Thiara as she explores weight loss and healthy living. Series: "Osher WISE: Well-bei…

00:09:21 | Sat 27 Jan 2024

How To Manage Obesity

Having a skilled primary care clinician will go a long way to maintaining your health and wellness. Join Dr. Diana Thiara as she explores weight loss and healthy living. From understanding the basics…

00:59:30 | Sat 08 Jul 2023

Excess Body Fat Triggers Insulin Resistance

What we eat -- and don’t eat -- is directly related to our health. Poor diets lead to poor health outcomes, including cancer. Dr. Donald Abrams, integrative oncologist at UCSF Osher Center for Integ…

00:02:20 | Sat 01 Apr 2023

Health is an Issue of Psychology Not Nutrition

Millions attempt some form of diet yet only a small fraction achieve permanent weight loss. Neuroscientist and writer Darya Rose discusses the power of habits as a much needed alternative to dieting.…

00:04:39 | Sat 09 Oct 2021

Is Food Addiction Just a Willpower Issue? No.

An increasing number of scientific studies suggest that food, like drugs or alcohol, can have addictive qualities. Ashley E. Mason, PhD, explores how the reward system, located inside the human nervo…

00:07:48 | Sat 13 Mar 2021

Wall Street and ... Obesity? Marion Nestle Talks about the U.S. Food Supply

Marion Nestle, Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition at New York University, discusses the U.S. food industry being in a highly competitive environment where profits are paramount and publ…

00:04:06 | Fri 15 Jan 2021

Can Natural Foods Compete with the Modern Food Environment?

Ashley Gearhardt describes significant differences between natural food and the modern food environment and how the human brain could be affected. Gearhardt developed the Yale Food Addiction Scale (Y…

00:05:51 | Fri 11 Sep 2020

Sugar: The Unsweetened Truth and What We Can Do About It

Obesity is at the root of silent epidemics such as type 2 diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Laura Schmidt explores the causes and solutions, taking lessons from tobacco: reducing the ava…

01:13:38 | Sat 25 Apr 2020

Connecting the Dots: Linking Food Systems Locally and Globally - Hunger for Change: Food Insecurity Stress and Obesity 2017 COAST/SSEW Symposium

Four leaders in food policy and law discuss troubling trends of food insecurity, poor diet, chronic disease and obesity along with novel strategies that can be implemented locally and globally. Pane…

00:35:36 | Thu 14 Feb 2019

From Fat-Free Diet to Weight Gain

Katie Ferraro, registered dietitian at the UCSF School of Nursing, discusses the consequences of fat-free trends. Series: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science for Everyone" [Health and Med…

00:01:27 | Fri 18 Jan 2019

UCSF's New Food Industry Documents Archive Part 1

The UCSF Industry Documents Library (IDL) now includes the Food Industry Documents Archive, a brand new collection of over 30,000 documents related to the food industry and its impact on public healt…

01:28:04 | Wed 02 Jan 2019

UCSF's New Food Industry Documents Archive Part 2

The UCSF Industry Documents Library (IDL) now includes the Food Industry Documents Archive, a brand new collection of over 30,000 documents related to the food industry and its impact on public healt…

01:21:34 | Wed 02 Jan 2019

Does Air Pollution Make You Fat and Pre-Diabetic? - The Exposome and Metabolic Health - 2018 COAST/SSEW Symposium

John Balmes, MD, UCSF Professor, gives insight into how air pollution may impact obesity and metabolic health. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medici…

00:17:45 | Thu 04 Oct 2018

Stress and Obesity - The Exposome and Metabolic Health - 2018 COAST/SSEW Symposium

Barbara Laraia, PhD, UC Berkeley, reveals why neighborhoods and stress have a major impact on obesity and pregnancy. Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and …

00:09:05 | Thu 04 Oct 2018

The Obesogens: What You Need to Know - The Exposome and Metabolic Health - 2018 COAST/SSEW Symposium

Bruce Blumberg, PhD, UC Irvine Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology and leader in the field of "obesogens," discusses the role of exposures that disrupt our endocrine systems in the obesity ep…

00:20:40 | Thu 04 Oct 2018

Do Chemicals Make it Harder to Burn Calories? - The Exposome and Metabolic Health - 2018 COAST/SSEW Symposium

Michele La Merrill, PhD, MPH, UC Davis Professor of Environmental Toxicology, discusses how calories are burned and whether some chemicals make it harder for us to burn calories and stay slim. Series…

00:20:00 | Thu 04 Oct 2018

The Social Exposome - The Exposome and Metabolic Health - 2018 COAST/SSEW Symposium

Aric Prather, PhD, UCSF Professor and Co-Director of the Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study, and Treatment (COAST) discusses how social stressors and relationships can act like environmental to…

00:13:05 | Wed 03 Oct 2018

The Face of Food Addiction: Living Through and Beyond

An increasing number of scientific studies suggest that food, like drugs or alcohol, can have addictive qualities. Food addiction is a disease which causes loss of control over the ability to stop ea…

01:22:51 | Tue 17 Jul 2018

The Diet Trap: Why You Should Never Go on a Diet Again and What To Do Instead

Millions attempt some form of diet yet only a small fraction achieve permanent weight loss. Neuroscientists and science writers Sandra Aamodt and Darya Rose suggest what you should do instead. Serie…

01:20:10 | Tue 10 Jul 2018

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