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Nobody spoke of obesity as a personal failing, nor did they blame people for their body size, the same way we don't blame people who have under-nutrition problems, such as stunting....No scientist...
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Rather, they looked to changes in our environments to explain rising obesity rates and again to our environments for solutions to the public health crisis.I wrote more on why, and on obesity science...
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Hey everyone... as a new kid on the Mastodon block, I'll #introduce myself. I'm a long-time #health journalist, from Canada (as my handle suggests), currently living in Vienna, Austria with my husband...
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🚨Personal news alert🚨 I'm on the Substacks. I'll mostly share newly published pieces, and sometimes, ideas in progress. You can sign up through my website here:...
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This felt like the right move for now, even if it's both scary and exciting, and I'll still contribute to Vox, so it's not quite goodbye. Thanks for reading and here's also my Substack link...
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Short 🧵There's lots of backlash to the new American Academy of Pediatrics childhood #obesity guidelines, which suggest docs consider surgery or meds in kids as young as 12 Not surprising since the...
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In sum, critics are uneasy with the idea that kids might be medicated or even go under the knife to treat obesity at a moment when the catastrophic, obesity-promoting built- and food- environments...
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But what's lost in the pushback is that the treatment of individuals who presently have obesity must be considered separately from questions about prevention and obesity’s environmental causes. And...
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How freely do we choose what to eat? Diet culture would have us believe it's all free will -- you're fat or skinny because of conscious choices.Diet culture is wrong. I unpacked the biological systems...
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#Ozempic and other GLP1 meds, have been unleashed on the market in a contentious moment.Health at Every Size has gained traction, with acolytes saying obesity is not a disease in need of treatment, nor...
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#obesity rates are increasing... along with weight discrimination. There are legions who have been let down by diets, who are frustrated with diet culture, but also a lot of people who want help losing...
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If current trends continue, #obesity will soon be a $4 trillion disease.I wrote about what's behind that number for @statnewshttps://www.statnews.com/2023/03/02/obesity-costs-4-trillion-2035/
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#Obesity is not one thing, it's many. Yet doctors often use blunt, one-size-fits-all solutions to treat their patients. Is there a better way? I wrote about the long, difficult quest to personalize...
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The story focuses on a team at the Mayo Clinic who have been delivering obesity care by phenotype since 2016. Some consider them pioneers in obesity precision medicine. Others aren't so sure -- and...
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And right now, there is none — let alone agreement on how to treat subtyped patients.Consider the mess that is identifying patients who are "metabolically healthy." There are more than 30 different...
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As I wrote in the Substacks, there's not even a consensus in the medical community on how to define obesity...
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New story alert: 🚨The semaglutide drugs Wegovy and Ozempic are heavily marketed at women for the weight-loss they can bring.Yet there's a surprising gap in the conversation about their safety... I...
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Studies in rats, rabbits & monkeys found animals on semaglutide experienced higher rates of miscarriage. Their babies more often did not grow to full size or had birth defects.Key: We don't know...
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But FDA recommends people stop taking the drugs at least two months before becoming pregnant.FDA also acknowledges uncertainty: two of four follow-up studies the agency required on approval of Wegovy...
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I talked to a dozen experts in obesity med, ob-gyn, pharma regulation, etc -- nearly all say whatever the cause of the pregnancy harms, they need more attention.In the wild west of Ozempic/Wegovy...
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