Posts Tagged ‘trends’

Metabolic Surgery Numbers Plunging? Not Exactly

April 16, 2025 — Back in October, JAMA Network Open published a research letter suggesting that metabolic surgery numbers were “plunging” because of GLP-1 medicines. They claimed to observe a 26% drop in surgeries between 2022 and 2023 for privately insured patients. A few months later, the authors issued a correction and said the actual drop was more like […]

Riots Not Diets!

“Healthy Lifestyles” Rising as Dieting Falls

October 2, 2014 — Consumer research experts tell us that everyone is pursuing healthy lifestyles and running from the notion of dieting. And if you look at the waning fortunes of large, well-established diet brands, you will find a pattern that supports this notion. Diet sodas like Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi are suffering sales declines even as consumers are […]