饮食和生活方式干预,历来是AHA年会的热门话题。美国正处于肥胖症流行的时代,上世纪90年代末,61％的人口超重或者肥胖,比1980年高出47％。 Rockefeller大学的Jeffrey Friedman在大会上指出,非常强的证据证明,目前人们对肥胖的认识是错误的。现实中,大多数人认为肥胖是由于缺乏坚强的意志或者是环境和社会因素造成的,而事实上,肥胖源于生物学因素。Friedman认为,肥 Diet and lifestyle interventions have been a hot topic of the annual AHA. The United States is in the era of obesity. In the late 1990s, 61% of the population was overweight or obese, up 47% from 1980. Jeffrey Friedman of Rockefeller University pointed out at the conference that there is strong evidence that people are currently mistaken about obesity. In reality, most people think that obesity is due to a lack of strong will or environmental and social factors, and in fact, obesity comes from biological factors. Friedman thinks, fat