Obesity contributes to more than 300,000 potentially avoidable deaths each year. Half the population is overweight and a third is obese, according to the latest federal guidelines.
Obesity is a major risk factor for a heart attack.
Children are affected, as are the elderly and everyone in between. Copies of the supplement will be available at the Annual Meeting. Dr. William Dietz, director of the division of nutrition and physical activity at the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, who will discuss the latest developments in treating obesity in children. Kelly Brownell, professor of psychology and epidemiology and director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders at Yale University. John P. Foreyt, director of the nutrition research clinic at Baylor College of Medicine, who will discuss biological and environmental factors in the development of obesity.