NIH Director Calls Obesity “A Very Serious Problem.”

reports on its website that for part three of the “Here & Now’s series America On The Scale,” host Jeremy Hobson interviews NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins “about the latest research and what it says about understanding obesity, its complications and how best to reduce the problem.” When prompted with the question about the seriousness of obesity, Dr. Collins said that obesity is “a very serious problem,” adding that “over the last 30 years, we’ve been going very much in the wrong direction and with increasing incidents of obesity, that implies to both children and adults, and we know the health consequences are very significant in terms of increases in diabetes, in terms of joint problems, in terms of cardiovascular disease, even cancer which many people don’t realize is increased at risk in obese individuals.” http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/12/09/nih-obesity-no-magic-pill