Thursday, August 30, 2018

Taking Medication For Obesity (Or Anything Else For That Matter) Is Not A Failure

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The other day a GP tweeted at me that there was " no role for pharmacology " in the treatment of obesity along with an #LCHF has...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Please Stop Judging Other People's Shopping Carts And Fast Food Orders

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Ever wonder if you're biased against people with obesity? Have you ever stood in line behind someone with obesity at the supermarket a...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Saturday Stories: A Single Read Week (It's A Really Worthy Read)

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John Ioannidis, in JAMA, on the incredibly flawed foundations of nutritional research and dietary recommendations . Given subscribers here a...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

If A Woman With Obesity Is Denied Fertility Treatment, Does She Have Grounds To Sue?

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It is a fairly common practice for fertility clinics to deny treatments to women with obesity. The rationale presented usually references th...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Two New Studies Pour Cold Water On Water's Role In Weight Management

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Two new studies are bound to disappoint those who still want to believe water makes a difference in weight management. The first of thes...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Saturday Stories: Glyphosphate, Glyphosphate, And Katie Stubblefield

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Robert O'Conner, in Medium, with his expert thoughts on glyphosphate (RoundUp) and cance r. Andrew Kniss, in his blog, with his expert...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Study Finds Giving Prebiotics To Kids Doesn't Change Their Energy Intake And Ups A Major Hunger Hormone Yet Still Concludes Prebiotics Have Potential To Help With Childhood Obesity?

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Today will be discussing a study that had kids randomly assigned to taking either 8g oligofructose enriched inulin (prebiotic) per day or pl...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Saturday Stories: Useless Multivitamins, Menopause, and Jordan Peterson

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Timothy Caulfield, on NBC think, on the uselessness of multi-vitamins for all (happy to find this story for reader Pug Piper). Jen Gunter...
Thursday, August 09, 2018

Book Review: The Complete Guide to Weight Loss Surgery

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Today's guest post comes from our office's newest RD Alex Friel who has reviewed a book for people considering or having bariatric s...
Tuesday, August 07, 2018

Have You Been, Or Are You, On A Diet? Please Take 2 Minutes To Review This Brief Survey About How Easy Or Difficult It Is/Was.

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Back in 2012 I first posted my wish for there to be a questionnaire that would serve to help individuals and researchers determine how easy ...
Saturday, August 04, 2018

Saturday Stories: 2 on Corbyn's Anti-Semitism, 2 on Ecological Disasters, And 1 on Weight Bias

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Helen Lewis, in New Statesman, on Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism Jamie Rogers in The Spectator, on how Britain's Labour Party is no p...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

Apparently Some Parents Are Hiring Fortnite (A Video Game) Coaches For Their Kids. Wish They'd Hire Them Cooking, Budgeting, And Critical Appraisal Coaches Instead

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Now I can't imagine it's a commonplace practice, but yesterday the Wall Street Journal published a piece about parents hiring coache...
Monday, July 30, 2018

No Parents, Your Children Aren't "Stealing Food" (And Some Thoughts On How To Silently Cultivate Better Choices)

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It's a concern I hear not infrequently when meeting with parents of children with obesity - that their son or daughter is " stealin...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Saturday Stories: Gwyneth Paltrow, Ellen Maud Bennett, and Pauline Mara

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner, in the New York Times Magazine, with the best writing of any story I've read this year, on Gwyneth and her GOOP...
Monday, July 23, 2018

The Obesity Society Weighs In On Soda Taxes To......Double Checks Notes......Caution Against Them

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The Obesity Society (TOS) , who in their own words are, "the leading scientific membership organization advancing the science-based un...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Saturday Stories: #ShareAStoryInOneTweet, Hospital Food, And Dangerous Bullshit

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Lisa Rosenbaum, in NEJM, covers the viral medical hashtag #ShareAStoryInOneTweet (and cites my tweet in it as well). Kate Washington, ...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

From The Journal Of Well-Intentioned Facepalms: St. Catherines' City Council Bans Vending of Bottled Water, Keeps Bottled Soda

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So St. Catherine's City Council, presumably in a bid to be environmentally conscious, has banned the sale of bottled water in city faci...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Does When You Eat Affect Your Circadian Rhythm, Metabolism, Appetite, Physical Activity, And More? A "Big Breakfast" Study Aims To Explore.

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By Amin - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link The fight over " breakfast " among diet gurus and social media warriors is so tireso...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Saturday Stories: Personal Biohacking, A Justifiably Cranky Oncologist, and Aztec Human Sacrifice

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1587 AZTEC MANUSCRIPT, THE CODEX TOVAR/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Jacqueline Detwiler, in Popular Mechanics, with her personal biohacking journey ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

New Intermittent Fasting Study: No Magic Weight Loss Benefits. Hungry Making.

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If you even remotely follow dieting zeitgeist, there's no doubt you've come across intermittent fasting. Briefly, intermittent fas...