# Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2013
- Speaker: Peter Attia
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_attia_is_the_obesity_crisis_hiding_a_bigger_problem)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

As a young surgeon, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the fact that she needed a foot amputation. But years later, Attia received an unpleasant medical surprise that led him to wonder: is our understanding of diabetes right? Could the precursors to diabetes cause obesity, and not the other way around? A look at how assumptions may be leading us to wage the wrong medical war.

## Lectures

1. [Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/peter_attia_is_the_obesity_crisis_hiding_a_bigger_problem/7f8523bac783), 16 min (TED's player)