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Business is apparently booming in the criminal trade for bogus obesity medicines. The Times (London) reports that criminals are selling dangerous weight-loss jabs on social media and in gyms. They write that: “Pharmaceutical bosses have issued a stark warning about medicines such as Mounjaro sold online without safety controls as gangs branch out from hard […]

Truveta this week published data that reveals striking growth in the use of GLP-1s by women with PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome). Prescriptions for semaglutide or tirzepatide have risen by more than 700% in women with PCOS, according to their analysis. So don’t think that this is slipping right by the bean counters at drug benefit […]

The International Journal of Obesity has published a map for future directions in weight bias research. The quality and global diversity of thinking that went into the summit which produced this roadmap is exceptional. The source of this thinking was the International Weight Bias Summit last year in Montreal at Concordia University. Support for the […]

“I am over the moon about this,” said Harvard professor Caroline Apovian to us. She was talking about the outstanding topline results with retatrutide reported by Lilly from a phase three study. This is the so-called triple-G agonist that first stunned the world with its phase two results two years ago. In the results yesterday, […]

Shifting paradigms is difficult, but that does not mean we can’t try. Recently, I have been continuing the discussion that I started to think about in 2012 when I started my PhD. It is all about drawing a bright line between health promotion and obesity prevention. We need to be sure to be clear about […]

Saturated fats are bad. But wait, our health secretary has been teasing us with vows that new dietary guidelines will advise us they’re not. Nutrition experts are in a tizzy. We merely shake our heads at another dietary generalization going up in smoke – reinforcing the timeless thought that all generalizations are wrong. Yes, even […]

Professor Naveed Sattar has a modest proposal for us. He chairs the UK government’s obesity healthcare goals and says smaller portions might hold the key to reducing obesity in women, children, and shorter persons. Sattar writes in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology: “When only one portion size is offered, women, children and individuals of shorter stature […]

browser does not support iframeWe write a great deal here about obesity care. That phrase reflects the fact that obesity is a complex chronic disease typically requiring lifelong care. Not just a simple weight loss intervention. But most of the world is not thinking in those terms. And the research symposium last week at NIH […]

It seems that everywhere we turn, we hear another story about ubiquitous exposure to PFAS – a class of endocrine disrupting chemicals that shows up in water, food, drugs, cosmetics, clothing, and household items. It is part of “pollution’s hidden weight in the obesity epidemic.” This perspective comes from a recent comprehensive examination in Current […]

“Supportive human relationships, particularly high-quality marital bonds, may regulate obesity risk through oxytocin-mediated alterations in brain and gut pathways.” This is the bottom line on a fascinating exploration of the biological relationship between emotionally supportive marriages and obesity published this week in Gut Microbes. This finding is not entirely a surprise. Nor is it the […]