Health Matters: Obesity and Social Networks



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Are your friends making you fat? Or keeping you slender? According to a recent study, obesity is socially contagious or spreads from person to person in a social network. James Fowler, PhD, coauthor of the study, and Michael Gottschalk, MD, join our host, David Granet, MD, for a lively discussion on social networks and how they influence weight staring in childhood through adulthood. Series: "Health Matters" [2/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 12436]


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