Campos has published extensively on the degree to which weight management should be a subject of public health intermediation. Paul Campos is a law professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder and author of The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health. Paul Campos (left), a law professor and author, and John Stossel, host of Stossel on the Fox Business Network, argue that obesity isn't the government's business. He is currently the director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. Satcher is a former Robert Wood Johnson clinical scholar and Macy faculty fellow. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Satcher simultaneously held the positions of surgeon general and assistant secretary for health from February 1998 through January 2001. David Satcher served as the 16th surgeon general of the United States and published America's first "Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity." Formerly a four-star admiral in the U.S. Peeke is also chief medical correspondent for nutrition and fitness for Discovery Health TV, and the author of Fight Fat after Forty, Body for Life for Women, and Fit to Live.ĭr. She is a member of the Maryland governor's Council on Fitness a Presidential Challenge advocate for the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition and is national spokeswoman for the American College of Sports Medicine's Exercise is Medicine global campaign. Pamela Peeke, WebMD's chief lifestyle expert, is a physician, scientist and expert in the fields of nutrition, metabolism, stress and fitness.
surgeon general, argue in support of the motion: "Obesity Is The Government's Business."ĭr.
Pamela Peeke, WebMD's chief lifestyle expert, and Dr. Afterward, the vote was still 55 percent for the motion, with 35 percent against - meaning the team arguing that obesity isn't the government's business changed the most minds, making it the winner of the debate.
They faced off two against two in an Oxford-style debate on the motion: "Obesity Is The Government's Business."īefore the debate, the audience at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University voted 55 percent for the motion and 19 percent against, with 26 percent undecided. And some contend that the government doesn't know how to achieve its aims anyway.Ī groups of experts came together to argue about the obesity epidemic in the latest Intelligence Squared U.S. Obesity is associated with an increased risk of serious health problems, including diabetes, heart disease and cancer - adding costs to the nation's health care system.ĭespite that, others argue against government intrusion into people's personal habits.
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