Opinion
Should South Park: The End of Obesity Be Required Viewing in Medical School?
It’s remarkable that South Park, a show built on serving up politically incorrect offense, covers obesity and its...
News
‘Ozempic Burgers’ Offer Indulgences to People With Obesity
Burgers aimed at those taking GLP-1s will be smaller and lower calorie, but with higher levels of fat and protein than regular-size burgers.
Opinion
Kimchi: Not Magically Protective Against Weight Gain
How much of societal diet-related scientific illiteracy can be blamed on the publication decisions of medical journals around food studies?
Opinion
‘Stop Teaching’ Children It’s Their Fault They’re Fat
The US Preventive Services Task Force has published draft recommendations that 6-year-olds with obesity be lectured to about diet and exercise.
Opinion
‘Patients fail’ despite benefits of sustained weight loss
Here we have a paper that concludes with the inference of surprise that few people, without treatment, lost clinically meaningful amounts of...
Opinion
10 ways docs sabotage their patients’ weight loss journeys
Stopping medications for obesity when weight is lost. Do you also stop blood pressure medications when they normalize a patient’s blood pressure...
Opinion
New antiobesity drugs will benefit many. Is that bad?
Patients are regularly seen discontinuing or reducing the dosage of multiple medications as a result of improvements to multiple weight-responsive...
Opinion
Weight bias affects views of kids’ obesity recommendations
For childhood obesity, we thankfully now have a number of effective treatment options that we can offer, and it’s only our societal weight bias...
Opinion
Does paying people to lose weight work?
Thousands of genes and dozens of hormones are involved in our individual levels of hunger, cravings, and fullness.
Opinion
‘Stop pretending’ there’s a magic formula to weight loss
Why are medical journals, even preeminent nonpredatory ones, publishing 12-week weight-loss program studies as if they have value?
Opinion
It’s time to shame the fat shamers
Do you have chairs suitable for patients with obesity? A scale that measures up to high weights that’s in a private location? Appropriately sized...
News
‘This food will kill you, that food will save you’
Will eating a single hot dog really cost you 36 minutes of healthy life? Researchers need to stop studying single foods’ impacts on health, says...
Opinion
Weighing children in school: No good can come of it
SARS-CoV-2 has been found in cardiac tissue of a child with multisystem inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19, believed to be first evidence...