Weight and Healthcare

Content note: Many of you requested this piece and I think it’s important to talk about, but I also want to let you know that today’s piece might be a tough read. It discusses the lack of care for, a…

I received the following request from  reader Anisha:

I like the in-depth reviews you have of the studies for Wegovy, but I’m talking to a lot of friends and family about this and it would help to hav…

BMI-Based denials of care are about holding healthcare hostage for a weight loss ransom. A ransom that most people won’t be able to pay. Today I’m talking about resources that can be used to fight BM…

Happy 2024! I am ready for another year of writing about the intersections of weight science, weight stigma, and healthcare and I’m glad you are here reading! This is the Weight and Healthcare newsle…

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Part one of this was published on December 13, but this piece was pre-empted…

In the past I’ve written pieces specifically about issues and mistakes that are made with terminology that is used…let’s call it differently in weight science as well as common statistics mistakes an…

I have written before about the various types of weight stigma that can impact healthcare including implicit weight stigma and bias (wherein people have negative beliefs and stereotypes about fat peo…

This is the second part of a series answering a reader’s question about weight loss industry “big think” strategies within healthcare. In part 1 we discussed how the weight loss industry strategicall…

Today I’ll be taking a break from research breakdowns and such to talk about navigating nonsense that happens during the holiday season. Reader Anna asked:

It seems like I can’t put a bite of food in …

I have written plenty about the sorry state of weight science – an area of science wherein research that would get a freshman flunked out of their intro to research methods class gets published in pe…

I’ve written quite a lot about BMI-based procedure denials for higher-weight patients. These denials typically amount to a patient having their healthcare held hostage for a weight loss ransom that t…

In part 1 we discussed the types and rates of side effects for Wegovy. Today we’re going to discuss the claim that reader Connie’s doctor made that the weight loss drug Wegovy “has been around foreve…

I received the following question from reader Connie: “My doctor is pushing me to take Wegovy. I told him I’m not interested in weight loss medication but the kept pushing so I said that I was worrie…

In part one we talked a bit about who was behind Ob*sityWeek and the money involved. Today we’re going to look at how this plays out.

Ob*sityWeek* (OW) is over, but the onslaught of uncritical media articles promoting its contents has just begun. In Part 1 we’ll discuss what OW is (and who is behind it.) In part 2 we’ll discuss som…

Today I was using cooking spray (for non-diet ease of use purposes!) and I had a flashback to a doctor’s appointment before I learned the truth about the failure rate of weight loss.

A reader sent me the marketing email for a heart health seminar that perfectly demonstrates many of the issues that we see with weight science, weight stigma, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industry …

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I received this question from reader J’Alice:

I recently heard somebody say t…

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This is another in the series of research bre…

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The idea that people can gain “clinically meaningful health benefits” by los…