• Treatment Options
• 28 min
  1. Pharmacotherapy for obesity: why it is needed

  • Prof. Joe Proietto
• 35 min
  2. Pharmacotherapy for obesity: hunger suppressors

  • Prof. Joe Proietto
• Latest Developments in the Field
• 25 min
  3. Obesity, present and future therapies

  • Prof. Sir Stephen Bloom
• 39 min
  4. Childhood obesity: implications for current and future health

  • Prof. Peter T. Katzmarzyk
• 46 min
  5. The clinical assessment and management of child and adolescent obesity

  • Prof. Louise Baur
• Archived Lectures - These lectures may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 41 min
  6. Gastrointestinal peptides and food intake regulation

  • Prof. Sir Stephen Bloom
• 48 min
  7. Obesity and mortality: questions and controversy

  • Prof. David Allison
• 37 min
  8. Obesity, diabetes and the cluster of the metabolic syndrome

  • Prof. Peter Wilson
• 44 min
  9. New standards in weight management: recent and future drugs for the treatment of obesity

  • Prof. Luc Van Gaal
• 46 min
  10. Health economics of obesity: new insights

  • Dr. Anne Wolf
• 34 min
  11. Bariatric surgery: techniques and mechanisms of action

  • Prof. Walter Pories
• 39 min
  12. Childhood obesity: implications for future health

  • Prof. Peter T. Katzmarzyk
• 14 min
  13. Pharmacotherapy for obesity 1 - the need for pharmacotherapy in weight management

  • Prof. Joe Proietto
• 46 min
  14. Pharmacotherapy for obesity 2 - pharmacological agents in current use & under development

  • Prof. Joe Proietto
• 23 min
  15. Pathophysiology and management of obesity related hypertension

  • Prof. Arya Sharma
• 20 min
  16. Obesity, weight loss and health-related quality of life

  • Prof. Aila Rissanen
  • Dr. Jarmo Kaukua
• 44 min
  17. Lifestyle modification for weight control

  • Prof. Thomas Wadden
• 33 min
  18. Obesity and adiponectin

  • Prof. Philipp Scherer
• 44 min
  19. Ectopic fat: causes, consequences and treatment

  • Prof. Steven Smith
• 56 min
  20. Adipose tissue metabolism and obesity

  • Dr. Max Lafontan
• 29 min
  21. The developmental origins of obesity

  • Prof. David Barker
• 46 min
  22. Obesity, dyslipoproteinemia and inflammation

  • Prof. Robert Eckel
• 22 min
  23. Disorders of overeating

  • Prof. Albert Stunkard
• 34 min
  24. Bariatric / obesity surgery

  • Prof. Henry Buchwald
• 60 min
  25. Body composition

  • Dr. Steven Heymsfield
• 47 min
  26. Adipose-immune interactions in obesity

  • Dr. Vishwa Dixit
• 42 min
  27. Energy expenditure in the lean and obese

  • Prof. Dale Schoeller
• 39 min
  28. Health benefits of intentional weight loss

  • Prof. Xavier Pi-Sunyer
• 37 min
  29. Assessment of obesity and classification of patients: historical perspectives and current practice

  • Prof. George Bray
• 40 min
  30. Epidemiology of obesity

  • Prof. Jacob Seidell
• 59 min
  31. Metabolic, adipose tissue and muscle predictors of obesity

  • Prof. Ian Macdonald
• 41 min
  32. Neural control of food intake and energy balance

  • Prof. Hans-Rudolf Berthoud
• 64 min
  33. Understanding obesity: genes and environment in the determination of body weight

  • Prof. Rudy Leibel
• 47 min
  34. Dietary determinants of obesity

  • Prof. Arne Astrup
• 42 min
  35. Physical inactivity as a determinant of obesity

  • Prof. Wim Saris
• 42 min
  36. Environmental causes of obesity: sociocultural, built environment and economic factors

  • Prof. Shiriki Kumanyika
• 48 min
  37. Can obesity be prevented in the current obesogenic environment?

  • Prof. Boyd Swinburn

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Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of energy balance
3. Sensing nutrient supply is crucial
4. Sensing nutrients in the alimentary canal (1)
5. Sensing nutrients in the alimentary canal (2)
6. The peripheral taste system
7. A taste for fat
8. Sensing nutrients in the alimentary canal (3)
9. Vagal sensors in the gastric intestinal tract
10. Sensing nutrients in the alimentary canal (4)
11. CCKA cells and CCKA receptor
12. Sensing nutrients in the alimentary canal (5)
13. Sensing absorbed nutrients (1)
14. Sensing absorbed nutrients (2)
15. Schema of the rat hypothalamus
16. Genetic-molecular dissection
17. Grill's decerebrate rat model
18. Monogenic obesity: the power of leptin-deficiency
19. Regulatory mechanisms
20. Resistance to leptin
21. Environmental view of obesity
22. Thrifty genes,and an "obesogenic" environment
23. The "other" brain involved in energy balance
24. The honeybee: fitness through dancing
25. The honeybee: finding food
26. Getting food used to take lots of brain work
27. Environment versus genetics: Pima Indians
28. Cognitive controls of food intake
29. Conditioned food intake
30. Eating and memory
31. The contribution of expanding portion sizes
32. Portion size and energy density
33. Obesity by choice in rats
34. Palatability and food reward (1)
35. Palatability and food reward (2)
36. Food and human brain activity
37. Imaginary food and brain activity
38. Extended neural system controlling appetite
39. Cognitive brain trumps metabolic brain
40. Conclusions

Topics Covered

• Sensing nutrients in the alimentary canal
• Sensing absorbed nutrients
• Hindbrain control of meal size
• Hypothalamic control of energy balance
• Environmental influences on body weight regulation
• Cognitive controls of food intake
• Food as reward

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Series:

• Obesity

Categories:

• Metabolism & Nutrition

Therapeutic Areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolic

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Archived on May 28, 2025

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Hans-Rudolf Berthoud has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.