Archive for the ‘Consumer Trends’ Category

Moving from Hype to Realities in the Obesity Market

February 7, 2025 — Novo Nordisk and Lilly reported on their business results this week for the final quarter of 2024. These reports brought clarity on a number of points, but to us, one thing stands out. We are moving from euphoria and hype about limitless possibilities in obesity to the realities of market competition and incremental progress. Sales […]

“Healthy Snacks You Actually Crave!” This Is Healthy Eating?

January 11, 2025 — Yes. This is a relief. We are in the midst of what used to be called “diet season.” Yet we are not getting an onslaught of advice about Atkins, paleo, vegan, or an assortment of obscure dietary approaches for fast weight loss. Instead, we are getting tips for healthy eating – such as this advice […]

When Selfies Stop Selfing: My Journey to Ozempic & Beyond

January 10, 2025 — Let’s talk selfies. For me, they were my reality check. Full-body shots? Forget it. Every milestone photo with my family got run through every beautification filter the App Store could throw at me, but nothing could match the image I wanted to see staring back. That’s when I knew – it was time for a […]

Weight Loss Season: Faded, but Neither Gone nor Forgotten

January 7, 2025 — It used to be that this was the time of year when popular culture turned its attention to weight loss season. The release of U.S. News rankings of “Best Diets” commanded media attention. Weight loss tips were everywhere. But no more is this true. No, idle talk about weight loss has not disappeared. But it […]

Five Predictions for 2025 in Obesity, Nutrition, and Health

January 1, 2025 — Thankfully, 2024 is behind us now and we have a blank slate for a whole new year ahead of us. But what can we expect? Well, proverbial (probably Danish) wisdom tells us “prediction is difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” Nonetheless, here are our top five predictions about what we will see in 2025 […]

Ideas on Obesity, Nutrition, and Health to Leave Behind in 2025

December 31, 2024 — The best thing about this day is that we can finally say we are done with 2024. We can savor the good news it brought and put the bad behind us. And while you are shaking off that bad news, we want to offer you some bad ideas on obesity, nutrition, and health that perhaps […]

Let’s Check the Scorecard on Our 2024 Predictions

December 30, 2024 — This year is rapidly winding down and already, our gaze is shifting toward expectations for the coming year. So before that shift is complete and we start making predictions for 2025, let’s check the scorecard for the expectations we had for 2024. A year ago, we put forward predictions of five hot topics for the […]

What You Read and Shared Most on ConscienHealth in 2024

December 26, 2024 — This has been quite a year. We’ve seen endless death and destruction in Ukraine and the Middle East. People expressed discontent with the status quo in elections all over the world. But most notably for our readers – more than 100,000 of you this year – the progress on obesity and health has been nothing […]

A Plea for Humility

December 25, 2024 — In so much of the news and public life today, humility seems to be in short supply. Hubris and cruelty are not. “It’s remarkable how often ambition becomes cruelty. In our self-delusion, we persuade ourselves that we’re not just right but that we’re so clearly right that opposition has to be rooted in arrogance and […]

First Came Ozempic Face, Now It’s a Treezempic Christmas

December 24, 2024 — “Skinny ‘Treezempic’ Christmas trees are this year’s holiday trend,” says the Washington Post. Yes, it has finally happened. Ozempic has encroached on our favorite holiday. Tight budgets, design aesthetics, and tight living spaces are favoring extremely slender Christmas trees this year and social media has dubbed the look Treezempic. Melissa Mills, a senior vice president […]