Health Matters: Obesity & Social Networks
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First Aired: 2/25/2008
28 minutes

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 starting from childhood through adulthood. (#12436)