Understanding Obesity

Understanding Obesity

In this course, we’ll look at the facts and misconceptions around obesity and discuss key physiological and psychological concepts around the brain’s control of appetite and body weight. We’ll consider the biological and environmental pressures that make it easy to gain weight (and hard to lose it!). Most importantly, we'll give you the opportunity to reflect on your own knowledge and assumptions around the subject.

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Last Update 01/22/2024
Completion Time 4 hours
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Basic Intermediate Nutrition
  • Week 1: What we know, and how we know it.
    7Lessons · 1 hr 12 min
    • About the course
    • Why is obesity a problem ?
    • What do we know about appetite and obesity?
    • What do we know about appetite and obesity? Part 2
    • The Scientific Method
    • Science, evidence and the media
    • Weekly quiz
      10 xp
  • Week 2
    6Lessons · 1 hr 13 min
    • The physiology of appetite
    • Is food an addictive substance?
    • Is eating a behavioural addiction?
    • Early-life experience
    • Stress, eating and dieting
    • Week 2 quiz
      10 xp
  • Week 3
    5Lessons · 1 hr 14 min
    • The psychology of appetite
    • Portion size and meal size
    • Economic approaches to obesity
    • Food insecurity
    • Week 3 quiz
      10 xp
  • Week 3
    1Lessons · 21 min
    • Week 4 quiz
      10 xp