Perspective: Obesity is not a disease

D. L. Katz ()
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D. L. Katz: D. L. Katz is the founding director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center, president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and editor-in-chief of the journal Childhood Obesity.

Nature, 2014, vol. 508, issue 7496, S57-S57

Abstract: The misguided urge to pathologize this condition reflects society's failure to come to terms with the need for prevention, says D. L. Katz.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/508S57a

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