October 8, 2024 — For dietitians who have long been seeing people who want help with issues related to diet, weight, and obesity, the last few years in obesity care have been disorienting. The source of discomfort is simple. New medicines that offer tremendous help with the physiology of obesity have changed the landscape for the nutrition guidance dietitians […]
June 3, 2024 — The STOP Obesity Alliance released new data Friday from an exhaustive analysis of access to obesity medicines in Medicaid programs across the United States. It’s not a pretty picture. It gives us more data to show how we are marginalizing people with the greatest need for obesity care. No state fully covered all forms of […]
February 22, 2024 — “Is the Atlantic diet the new Mediterranean miracle?” This headline (and a host of others like it) says a lot about the ultra-processing of nutrition research by consumer media. It takes a fascinating study about the health effects of a traditional pattern for eating called the Atlantic diet and removes all the nuance. The product […]
