2011 Lenna Frances Cooper Memorial Lecture: The Road to HEaLth Is Paved with Good InVentions: Of Science, Sense, and Elephense

Jumping through Hoops? Health, Hoopla, and the Infectivity of Fun

“…this is a tale i, in abundant company, tell routinely both on the page and at the podium. 7 it is a story of epidemic obesity among adults and children alike. it is a story of the transformation of adult-onset diabetes into type 2 diabetes, a condition affecting ever more children.…”

“…it is a story of the transformation of adult-onset diabetes into type 2 diabetes, a condition affecting ever more children. 7 it is a story of proliferating cardiac risk factors in ever-younger people. 8 it is even a story of a rising rate of stroke in 5 to 14 year olds.…”