John Hoffman and Judith Salerno

Why can't America "weight" any longer?

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About John Hoffman

John Hoffman is vice president of HBO Documentary Films and was named to this position in June 2006. He is also Executive Producer of The Weight of the Nation, a four-part series and large-scale public health campaign presented by HBO and the Institute of Medicine in association with the CDC, NIH, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Kaiser Permanente. An award-winning television producer, Hoffman has been associated with HBO since 1996, having spearheaded some of the network’s most noteworthy and critically acclaimed documentaries as an independent producer.

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John Hoffman of HBO Documentary Films and Judith Salerno of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies further discuss why urgent national action is needed to tackle our obesity epidemic.

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