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This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter . If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing using the button that looks like an arrow at the top and bottom of the piece! Reader Arlie reached out to ask what I think about the field of “ob*sity* medicine” (OM). This, for many, is a life-or-death question, so I’m going to give my thoughts on this as not just someone wh...

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter ! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sharing! In October, “Guidelines on Indications for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery” were put out. While I don’t think that these surgeries meet the requirement for ethical, evidence-based medicine , in looking at these guidelines specifically, here are...

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter ! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sharing! Note: I have explicit permission to share this story. I wanted to share it to help those who work within healthcare to see ways that they can make change, and those who do not work in healthcare to see how they might advocate. A call came in la...

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter ! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sharing! In the last newsletter, I gave a general overview of Weight Watchers (aka WW) and all the tricks they use to sell a program that doesn’t work . Today I’m going to dig into the research. I started at Weight Watcher’s own “Science Center.” They p...

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter ! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sharing! In 2018, Weight Watchers changed its name to “WW” added the tagline “wellness that works” and started using language about “health” and “wellness” and “beyond the scale.” Per a Fast Company article this happened because “In this new era of body...

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter ! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sharing! I hear from a lot of people who are on Medicare and Medicaid that they have been told that they are required to weigh in at their appointments or the services won’t be covered.  This is a misconception. Medicare and Medicaid's  Merit-based Ince...

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter ! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sharing! Reader Barbara sent me an article with the headline “How to Maintain Weight Loss, According to People Who Succeeded.” The article was about a study called “In their own words: Topic analysis of the motivations and strategies of over 6,000 long-...

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter ! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sharing! I have had several readers ask about the Lark program. In each case, it was being actively marketed to them, without their consent, by their insurance company and/or employer. Lark is, predominantly, a weight loss program that also bills itself...

I got this question recently: “I’ve been seeing articles that say that being fat* is considered a “chronic lifelong condition.” Can you explain what’s going on to me?” Get full access to Weight and Healthcare at weightandhealthcare.substack.com/subscribe