Obesity has become the leading health problem worldwide. As more people put on weight, more die from diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Jeffrey Friedman discovered the genes that cause obesity in mice and humans. He explains what we can do, and we are fascinated. (Long video in English, no subtitles.)
Published in El País Semanal.
Original music: Luis Miguel Ariza
Graphics courtesy of the Friedman Lab, Rockefeller University
Additional footage: UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Health