Discover
America's obesity epidemic--its causes, symptoms, treatments, solutions, and more--is the focus of this multi-part,
multimedia HBO project.
Original Release
05/14/2012 on hbo
US Release
05/14/2012
Cast
Name | Character |
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Larry Dwyer | Self |
Cindy Roach | Self - School Bus Driver |
Gerald Berenson | Self - Founder, Bogalusa Heart Study, Tulane University School of Medicine |
Peter Katzmarzyk | Self - Epidemiologist, Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
Stephanie Broyles | Self - Epidemiologist, Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
Kathy Pigott | Self - Teacher, Bogalusa Middle School |
Joe Culpepper | Self - Bogalusa Police Department |
Jack P. Shonkoff | Self - Director, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University |
Thomas Frieden | Self - Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
Shiriki Kumanyika | Self - Professor of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Consequences | Monday, 14 May 2012 |
2 | Choices | Monday, 14 May 2012 |
3 | Children in Crisis | Tuesday, 15 May 2012 |
4 | Challenges | Tuesday, 15 May 2012 |
5 | Healthy Mom Healthy Baby | |
6 | Latino Health Access: A Model of Community Action | Tuesday, 01 May 2012 |
7 | Latino Health Access | |
8 | Nashville Takes Action | |
9 | Heart Disease | |
10 | Poverty and Obesity | |
11 | Stigma | |
12 | Overweight in the Workplace | |
13 | Biology of Weight Loss | |
14 | Increasing Markets for Fruit and Veg Farmers | Saturday, 24 November 2012 |
15 | Healthy Foods and Obesity Prevention | |
16 | Obesity Research |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Larry Dwyer | Self |
Cindy Roach | Self - School Bus Driver |
Gerald Berenson | Self - Founder, Bogalusa Heart Study, Tulane University School of Medicine |
Peter Katzmarzyk | Self - Epidemiologist, Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
Stephanie Broyles | Self - Epidemiologist, Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
Kathy Pigott | Self - Teacher, Bogalusa Middle School |
Joe Culpepper | Self - Bogalusa Police Department |
Jack P. Shonkoff | Self - Director, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University |
Thomas Frieden | Self - Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
Shiriki Kumanyika | Self - Professor of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
Marlene Schwartz | Self - Deputy Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University |
Francis Collins | Self - Director, National Institutes of Health |
Rudy Leibel | Self - Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center |
Thomas Farley | Self - Commissioner, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene |
Deborah Lomax | Self - Deputy Director, Bronx District Public Health Office |
Michael Nutter | Self - Mayor of Philadelphia |
America Bracho | Self - Executive Director, Latino Health Access |
Tony Iton | Self - Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities, Tha California Endowment |
Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge | Self - Director, Bureau of Family, Youth, and Infant Health, City of Nashville |
Karl Dean | Self - Mayor of Nashville |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Sheila Nevins | Executive Producer |
John Hoffman | Executive Producer |
Alexandra Moss | Producer |
Ellin Baumel | Producer |
Tomek Gross | Producer |
Sonia Dulay | Producer |
Sarah Teale | Producer |
Dan Chaykin | Producer |
Kate Barry | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2012 | Emmy | Outstanding Nonfiction Series | Nominated |