Weight and Healthcare

When Weight-Centric Healthcare Becomes Coercive Part 1 - The Basics

I received the following email that I’m sharing with permission: I’m [name], I’m a family doctor and I recently attended your excellent pediatric grand rounds presentati

Do GLP-1s Help With...?

A lot of the questions I’m getting during Q&As right now (from healthcare providers AND from patients) are about possible uses for GLP-1s - from blood pressure to alcohol

Freedhoff’s Feelings Aren’t Facts - Part 2

In Part 1 we started looking at a commentary piece in Medscape by Dr. Yoni Freedhoff called “The Bell Tolls for the Diet Era.” In part 1 we looked at his big feelings a

Freedhoff’s Feelings Aren’t Facts - Part 1

If the name Yoni Freedhoff sounds familiar, it may be from the Natasha Wiebe’s guest post about her experience going to an “ob*sity” summit. She recounted:“Yoni Freedhoff

Hernia Repair and Higher-Weight People Part 3- Dealing with BMI-Based Denials

In part 1 I started writing about the basics of hernias in higher-weight people, including the fact that these surgeries are common targets for BMI-based denials of care,

Hernia Repair and Higher-Weight People Part 2 - The Realities of Requiring Weight Loss

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! In Part 1 we discussed the basics of hernia r

Hernia Repair and Higher-Weight People Part 1 - The Basics

One of the more complex situations that I often get asked to write about, or asked to help advocate for, is hernia repair in higher-weight people. This situation can be q

When Medical Weight Stigma Costs Thousands of Dollars

I write about many different examples of weight stigma in healthcare including BMI-based denials of care in which healthcare is held hostage for a weight loss ransom. Som

Weaponizing Weight Bias

I’ve written extensively about the weight loss industry’s attempt to co-opt the concept of weight bias and stigma Lately I’ve been noticing (and in some cases involved in

Weight and Cancer - Part 2 The Research

In part one we went through some of the basics around the research that considers higher-weight and cancer risk, progression, and outcomes. In part 2, we’ll consider some

Weight and Cancer Part 1 - The Basics

I have had a number of requests to discuss the research around cancer and higher-weight. This is an incredibly complex and nuanced subject. I’m going to start with a two-

Does Weight-Cycling Cause Loss of Muscle Mass?

Reader Barbara recently brought the study “Association of Weight Cycling with MRI-Based Thigh Muscle Quality and Knee-Adjacent Ob*sity” to my attention. The study sought

The Three Deadly Sins of Weight Science Research - Reader Request

I received a request from reader Chris who said: I know that you write about the problems with research all the time, but I would really like a post that names the main

Options for Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis Who Are Denied Surgery

I have written before about options for patients who are facing a BMI-based denial of care which occurs when their healthcare is being held hostage for a weight loss rans

Questionable Study On “Metabolically Healthy Obesity”

I have received a ton of requests to write about the paper “Are people with metabolically healthy ob*sity really healthy? A prospective cohort study of 381,363 UK Biobank

The Weight Stigma Mistake We MUST Stop Making

Recently a number of people directed me to a video online that discussed weight stigma and asked me to respond. I’m not naming names because this person is far from the o

Looking Back at Look AHEAD Part 2 - The 10% Group

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! In part 1 we looked at the basics of the Look

Looking Back at Look AHEAD Part 1 - Basics

People make a lot of claims that the Look AHEAD trial offers some sort of support for the efficacy of weight loss diets. So in this two-part series we’re going to look ba

Reader Question - What is Foundayo? Part 1 - Study Basics

I’ve received a ton of reader questions about Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 weight loss pill Foundayo, which was recently granted FDA approval. In Part 1 we’ll talk about the study i

Case Study - Fighting Weight Stigma to Get Healthcare

I recently heard from Samantha C who was suffering from what she described as “absolutely crippling plantar fasciitis.” She shared her story of battling medical weight st