Obesity A Disease Whose Time Has Come

Obesity: A Disease Whose Time Has Come
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Bariatric Science: A Science Whose Time Has come

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Obesity is the pandemic of the 21st century. Nonetheless, this most “visible of medical conditions” remains invisible to most third party payers. Insurance companies underwrite and spend billions on treating co-morbid diseases of obesity (diabetes, hypertension, CVD etc) and ignore what is most often the root of these diseases- obesity. Why?

Hippocrates: The Father of the Obesity Stigma

There is no medical condition that is more burdened with long standing discrimination then that of obesity. Beginning with the Hippocrates nostrum that weight can be controlled by deciding to eat less and exercise more, stigmatized “fat people” have been held Continue reading

Not On My Watch

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not-on-my-watchNot on my watch. I’m going to step-up on my soapbox for a few minutes this morning. Those of you who have known me for more than five years, know I have battled my weight my entire life. I’ve gained and lost 100 lbs…twice. I’ve done every weight loss intervention imaginable. Every. Single. One. Being overweight is a very painful Continue reading