Posts Tagged ‘innovation’

Two recent analyses illustrate a core problem that confronts professionals who devote their careers to developing and delivering better obesity care. So many barriers stand in the way of access to obesity care that people are slow to use new options as they become available. In Obesity Science and Practice, Shumin Zhang and colleagues describe a very […]

It’s hard to tell whether fitness trackers will turn out to be high tech placebos or coaches. Everything you read talks about promise and short-term outcomes — along with tech companies jostling for a competitive advantage. It’s pretty clear that physical activity monitoring technology offers plenty of promise and plenty of unfinished business. A research letter published […]

In an age of convenient food taken to a whole new level, Betty Crocker and the Pillsbury Doughboy find themselves in a bit of a slump. Mixes that made cakes, cookies, and sweet breads fly out of the oven like magic are not meeting consumer needs like they once did. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports […]

“Give a boy a hammer and everything he meets has to be pounded.” Abraham Kaplan’s Law of the Instrument has some wisdom to offer for some of the contentious arguments ongoing about self-reported, observational dietary data. The latest round in this argument was published by Steven Nissen and Nina Teicholz in the Wall Street Journal. […]

Some big changes are in the wind for drugs that treat diabetes and obesity. The biggest selling diabetes drug in the world — Lautus — is facing competition from a lower-priced, biosimilar form of this long-acting form of insulin. Newer drugs like Jardiance (empagliflozin) and Victoza (liraglutide) are growing robustly, valued for their profile for […]

If you need proof that McDonald’s is back in its groove, consider the chocolate McFries it launched this week in Japan. Early reviews of this taste sensation are mostly – uh – positive, like this one from RocketNews24: Without a doubt, the sauce was the prominent flavour, but with the savoury note, it didn’t taste […]

Change in obesity policy and the epidemic itself has been painfully slow for decades. But a growing collection of influential voices in social media are working for more positive steps to improve the lives of people with obesity and reduce the impact of this epidemic. ConscienHealth is fortunate to be one of the top 20 influencers identified […]

The folks at Zafgen released a glimmer of hope for beloranib this week. On Wednesday, Zafgen announced that this investigational new drug met its two primary efficacy endpoints in the pivotal clinical trial for treating Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). In December, that trial was halted after a second patient suffered a fatal blood clot in the […]

One of the toughest problems in nutrition and obesity is getting an accurate estimate of what people are eating. Without good measures of food intake, it’s tough to make good nutrition assessments or sound recommendations. 3D calorie counting is an intriguing possibility for solving this problem. Scientists at the University of Washington developed technology that utilizes laser scanning and […]

Prepare for an onslaught of no-added-sugar products. Food marketers have had more than a year to prepare for new dietary guidelines that formalize America’s growing aversion to sugar. And they provide a treasure map to a marketing windfall. Fresh new health claims are already emerging. Nutrition VP Jaime Schwartz Cohen of Ketchum Public Relations tells Advertising Age […]