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It’s a neat trick. The newest kid on the block in obesity care is part of the oldest in the diabetes neighborhood. It is the Obesity Association of the American Diabetes Association. And yesterday, the OA of the ADA showed that it can play well with others by publishing landmark Standards of Care for obesity […]

It is taking a long time for diet culture to fade into oblivion. But we are well down that road when celebrity culture meets obesity science in a new book by Oprah Winfrey and Ania Jastreboff. It’s remarkable, really, that we have come to a time when one of the most iconic persons in the […]

Justin Sung and Dana Small are two neurobiologists offering us some very basic wisdom. It is wisdom with roots in a sophisticated understanding of biology. We should take care not to lose the pleasure of food. In PLOS Biology, they offer a very cogent argument in defense of the pleasure of food. Their bottom line […]

Twenty years ago, advocacy for people living with obesity was at ground zero. But now, we are entering a third decade of advocacy for the Obesity Action Coalition. We are in a profoundly different position. So we took the day yesterday to consider with leadership in the OAC community where the next two decades of […]

“People who come off slimming jabs regain weight four times faster than dieters.” The year is young, but already we have this contender for the dumbest headline of the year about obesity. It is helpful only as a reminder of how pervasive the implicit bias about obesity and its treatment is. Slimming Jabs? The headline […]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock this January, you have probably noticed that this is no longer diet season. U.S. News seems to have abandoned their longstanding annual ranking of “Best Diets,” perhaps because no one is paying attention in this age of drugs related to Ozempic. Now, more people are dealing with excess […]

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. yesterday announced muddled new Dietary Guidelines for Americans in which everyone can find plenty to love or hate – or both. These are the perfect guidelines for our era. TikTok nutrition influencers can spin them any way they want. RFK can tell everyone that he’s owning the so-called nutrition […]

While all eyes in obesity focused on the launch of a daily oral tablet for ongoing treatment, Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals brought us a little surprise yesterday. They presented early data from phase one studies of two gene silencing therapies for obesity. Though these data are quite preliminary, they offer a signal of great promise for a […]

A big change is afoot and the hype is cranking up. With the launch of Wegovy tablets by Novo Nordisk yesterday, we are seeing some very big expectations expressed for a new era in obesity care. The stock market has boosted the value of Novo stock by 15 percent since FDA approved these tablets. Yesterday […]

This is an uncomfortable truth. Whether health professionals think about it or not in work that touches on obesity, they are making a choice: Are they perpetuating or challenging obesity stigma?