Diabetes, Weight Loss, Remission or Cure
Why bariatric surgery, fasting, and GLP-1 drugs can put type 2 diabetes into remission—and why the story is far more complex than sugar.
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Ultra Processed Food: The Enemy?
Ultra-Processed Food: Making Sense of the Madness Ultra-processed food has become the villain of modern nutrition.Scroll through social media, and you’ll hear that it’s poisoning us, wrecking our gut, and driving the obesity epidemic all by itself. At the same time, other voices dismiss the entire idea as fear-mongering.According to them, processing doesn’t matter at…
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Willpower Is B.S.: A Surgeon on Zepbound
Willpower Is B.S.: Food Noise, Healthspan, and What Actually Changed My Life For decades, I started every New Year the same way. In January, I promised myself this would be the year.By February, I tried harder.Every spring, I adjusted the plan.And by summer or fall, the weight crept back. That cycle repeated not because I…
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Losing Weight with Apps
Losing Weight With Apps Can a phone app help you lose weight? How about with your cholesterol, blood pressure, or waist size? Perhaps you’ve heard the latest Noom ads, where they boast forty publications showing that their app will help you lose weight. Apple is coming out with more ways to have their new watch…
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Red Meat: Is it good or bad? The answer is sometimes
Red meat is every bit as contentious as politics. In this case carnivores vs vegans – here is the latest data with references
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Obesity Rates Decline In Four States – Sort Of
The news that obesity rates declined for the first time is more of a statistical fluke than real cause to celebrate. There is nothing new that has decreased rates
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Obesity Rates Continue To Rise
Obesity rates continue to rise in the US in spite of reduction in consumption of sugar, increase in fiber. This affects minority more. The answer may be found from the interventions we do with children.
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Artificial Sweeteners: Still Bad
Artificial sweeteners, or “low energy sweeteners” have periodically been implicated as a separate cause of obesity. Evidence has been found that people take in more calories when using sweeteners.
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