Podcast Episodes

Please stop telling patients with Type 2 Diabetes to “Just eat less sweets and carbs”

I have permission to share the story of a patient I advocate for. She is fat and has Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). Her latest A1C test was 7.1%. This is .1%…

2 years, 11 months ago

Do Small Pharmaceutical Industry Payments Really Influence Doctors?

I received the following question from reader Ximena: “I appreciate how you always look to find out how much money different doctors have taken from …

2 years, 11 months ago

Weight Loss Surgery and Kids Part 2

This series is part of the work I did with WIND (Weight Inclusive Nutrition and Dietetics) to create a comprehensive response to the disastrous Ameri…

2 years, 11 months ago

Novo Nordisk's Ethically Questionable Wegovy Publicity Stunt

Embroiled in lawsuits and investigations across multiple countries about the dangerous side effects of their weight loss drug Wegovy (which I interru…

2 years, 11 months ago

Weight-Neutral Health And Wegovy - Unprinted Interview

I was recently asked for an interview by a reporter who was writing about Novo Nordisk’s new weight loss drug.

I sent a long answer via email and then…

2 years, 11 months ago

The Concept of “Non-Compliance” and Weight Loss Recommendations

As a fat patient who often exercises my right of informed refusal when it comes to recommendations of weight loss, I have had to correct my chart mul…

2 years, 11 months ago

Weight Loss Surgery and Kids Part 1

This series is part of the work I’m doing with Weight Inclusive Nutrition and Dietetics (WIND) to create a comprehensive response to the disastrous A…

2 years, 11 months ago

How Do I Talk To A Colleague About Their Weight Stigma?

I received this question from an anonymous reader who is an RN, and it’s a question I’ve received in various shapes and forms from a number of provid…

2 years, 11 months ago

Higher-Weight People Have Best Hip Surgery Outcomes in New Study

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sha…

2 years, 11 months ago

Noom Announces: We’re Not a Diet – We’re a Pill Mill?

Noom has announced the start of Noom Med, a division focused on selling diet drugs. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Weight Watchers just did th…

3 years ago