Posts Tagged ‘prescription drug trends’

2019 to 2024: Obesity and Overweight Diagnoses Up by 50%

May 28, 2025 — “If you don’t have a solution for me, then it’s not a problem.” This concise statement of wisdom distilled from human behavior explains why it has been so hard for so many years to have people pay attention to obesity in any constructive way. Doctors largely ignored it and rarely diagnosed it. Patients denied it. […]

The Prescription for More Obesity

January 22, 2022 — Without really thinking about it, most everyone assumes obesity is all about diet and exercise. But of course, the causes of obesity are not so simple. We have more obesity today than we did 20 years ago because multiple factors in our environment are triggering more obesity in people who are biologically susceptible. One of […]