Posts Tagged ‘diet and exercise’

A new paper in Current Obesity Reports asks a deceptively simple question: Are we ready to rethink the fundamental bias about obesity embedded in prevention strategies? It’s a timely challenge. After decades of effort, obesity prevalence continues to rise globally, despite enormous investments in prevention strategies. Assumptions The new publication argues that this disconnect is […]

We have a great privilege this week to spend time in Canberra (and Sydney), delivering two invited presentations and finally meeting up with quite a number of people we have known only virtually. Now in person. The occasion is the annual meeting of ANZMOSS – the Australian and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society. […]

For years, people living with obesity have been given the same basic advice: eat less, move more. But while this mantra may sound simple, it’s not only ineffective for many, it can be deeply misleading and damaging. Obesity is not just about willpower. It’s a complex, chronic, relapsing condition, and it affects around 26.5% of […]

This weekend, as Nutrition 2025 opens, four diverse professional groups announced a noteworthy collaboration. These groups came together to publish a clinical advisory on nutrition priorities that support GLP-1 therapy for obesity. The groups are the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), the American Society for Nutrition (ASN), the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA), and the […]

Narratives in health reporting tend to cluster. This is how we get diet fads. It’s also why stories about how bad BMI is have gotten enough traction to drive people to extreme views about it. Lately, we’ve noticed a new cluster forming. Let’s call it the premature death notices for diet and exercise. In Vox […]

Eat healthy and get your exercise. It is a straightforward framework for dealing with obesity. But that simple prescription of diet and exercise for preventing obesity overlooks a critical factor – the prolonged sitting time very often required by work and school. A recent study of data from young adult twins showed that sitting time […]

We’re stuck. This assessment sums up frustration with efforts to reduce the harm of obesity and diabetes in public health. For many decades we have remained fixated on a paradigm that tells us obesity and diabetes are rising because our patterns of diet and exercise are all wrong. Writing in the Guardian, Amy McLennan tells […]

Zeal is thrilling. “The solution is at hand” for type 2 diabetes, says Professor Roy Taylor. “If a person has T2DM, they have become too heavy for their own body.” Losing weight with his very low calorie diet will put that diabetes into remission, he says. “A simple bottom line.” Except that a new study […]

“Especially for children, diet and lifestyle must remain at the forefront of obesity prevention and treatment.” This conviction, summing up a new editorial in JAMA, beautifully captures the discomfort that the availability of more effective treatments for obesity causes. The belief persists that diets and exercise are the right way to reverse obesity. So the […]

Can healthy people with good nutrition and exercise skip the COVID-19 vaccine? A research scientist and fitness enthusiast explains why the answer is no. I’m a fitness enthusiast. I also adhere to a nutrient-dense, “clean” eating program, which means I minimize my sugar intake and eat a lot of whole foods for the purpose of […]