Exploring the cultural factors involved in the nation's obesity epidemic.

The Weight of the Nation

Part 4: Challenges

The stories of children who struggle with excess weight and face medical complications; examining the marketing practices of the food and beverage industry.

Part 3: Children in Crisis

Exploring methods of weight loss and weight loss maintenance.

Part 2: Choices

Exploring the long-term consequences of obesity including heart disease, the negative impact on liver function and the risks of diabetes.

Part 1: Consequences

Following some of the people and programs in Nashville, TN that are striving to make a difference in the health of its citizens.

Nashville Takes Action: A City Battles Obesity

Overweight and obese people discuss the stigma and discrimination they have faced because of their weight in this short documentary.

Stigma: The Human Cost of Obesity

A woman participates in a study that examines weight loss.

The Quest to Understand the Biology of Weight Loss

Visiting medical centers, universities and the NIH Clinical Center where research and studies into obesity are conducted.

Obesity Research and the National Institutes of Health

Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones delves inside cardiovascular disease, including how it begins early in life and its relationship to weight gain.

Can a Lifetime of Excess Weight Lead to Heart Disease?

Inside the agricultural system and the challenge to increase access of healthy, affordable fruits and vegetables to all Americans.

Agriculture

Inside the impressive workplace wellness program at Nabholz Construction Corporation in Conway, Ark.

S1 | Overweight in the Workplace: How Wellness Programs Can Help the American Workforce

E4 | Part 4: Challenges

E3 | Part 3: Children in Crisis

E2 | Part 2: Choices

E1 | Part 1: Consequences

Nashville Takes Action: A City Battles Obesity

Stigma: The Human Cost of Obesity

The Quest to Understand the Biology of Weight Loss

Obesity Research and the National Institutes of Health

Can a Lifetime of Excess Weight Lead to Heart Disease?

Agriculture

Overweight in the Workplace: How Wellness Programs Can Help the American Workforce

Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes