The Weight of the Nation season 1

Weight pulls no punches, spares neither the multibillion-dollar food and advertising industries nor public officials for not only failing to fix the problem but actually making it worse, and essentially writes a prescription for the nation's health and economic future that we ignore to our peril.

By David Wiegand FULL REVIEW

PopMatters

May 14, 2012

Weight of the Nation encourages viewers to feel responsible for their own lives and to make informed choices.

By Cynthia Fuchs FULL REVIEW

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Variety

May 14, 2012

[The Weight of the Nation is] a little flabby. Still, this multimedia endeavor delivers a powerful and important message.

By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

May 14, 2012

The value of the series, then, is its, well, weight, its relentless attempt to remind us of what we know, to connect many important dots and clear away the emotional and cultural fog that often blurs discussions about obesity, and to offer hope in the form of personal stories, regional projects and past success.

By Mary McNamara FULL REVIEW

Denver Post

May 14, 2012

A medically sound, educational effort.

By Joanne Ostrow FULL REVIEW

Boston Herald

May 14, 2012

In its personal vignettes, Weight illuminates, but too often the segments are a numbing array of statistics from well-meaning talking heads.

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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

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