This week’s topics include include brown fat, sugar-sweetened beverages, school-based obesity interventions, and exercise in people with congestive heart failure.

Program notes:
0:34 Brown fat is present in babies, and burns energy
1:29 To reduce obesity increase caloric expenditure
2:29 School based interventions for obesity
3:42 Didn’t assess blood pressure or type 2 diabetes
4:21 More than just education is needed
4:53 Sugar sweetened beverage consumption
5:45 10-15% of average consumption of children beverages
6:46 May actually increase food intake
7:27 Exercise in patients with heart failure
8:35 Medications are very good at improving symptoms
9:42 End

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