Posts Tagged ‘preventing chronic diseases’

On the opening day of ObesityWeek yesterday, we got quite a treat in a passionate debate of the Lancet Commission report on clinical obesity. Four of our favorite people – Sue Yanovski, Bob Kushner, Fatima Cody Stanford, and Donna Ryan – participated and made it memorable. We walked away with a clear understanding that many […]

The headlines won’t stop. “Obesity rates are falling and it’s almost certainly because of Ozempic,” says the Futurism banner. Vox tells us “the Ozempic effect is finally showing up in obesity data.” So can it be true that use of GLP-1s is lowering obesity prevalence? The short answer is no. Not now. Probably not ever. […]

In good conscience, it is hard to ignore the steady stream of scientific publications that tell us we are putting our children at risk by filling the world with plastics. And yet it seems that the convenience and ubiquity of plastics make it hard to resist. A sweeping new review in Lancet Child and Adolescent […]

The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology is not where we typically get insights on obesity. But from this year’s meeting, another hint emerges that treating obesity treatment may prevent some of the cancer that arises from obesity. This hint comes from a large and seemingly careful study of 170,030 persons with […]