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in 2018 42.4 of us adults were slated to have the disease of obesity of course this has continued to rise during the covet 19 pandemic obesity has emerged as the most prevalent chronic disease of our time hello my name is dr fatima cody stanford i'm an obesity medicine physician and scientist for children adolescents and adults at the massachusetts general hospital and the massachusetts general hospital weight center i'm the director of equity for the endocrine division in the department of medicine at mgh and i serve as the director of diversity for the nutrition obesity research center here at harvard this is understanding obesity obesity is a disease characterized by different signaling in the brain that tells your body how much to eat and also how much to store there is a particular part of the brain that's really responsible for weight regulation and that part of the brain is called the hypothalamus it gets signals and tells your body what to do and how to store so if you've strug