Making a Diagnosis, Making a Difference in Obesity Treatment
Photo by bongkarn thanyakij on Pexels.com Diagnosing is often the first step in crafting a treatment plan. Your doctor checks your blood pressure to determine if you have hypertension or…
Weight Loss in Early Adulthood and Mortality in Later Life- An Update
Obesity is a known risk factor for COVID-19. As we think more broadly about obesity prevention strategies, does when you lose weight across the lifespan matter related to all-cause mortality?…
Moving Less in a Pandemic- Impact on Physical Health
We are now in month six of the global pandemic of COVID-19. Many papers focusing on the direct care of the virus are being published at a significantly accelerated…
Food for Thought- Mood and Food
In these challenging times, your social media feed may be full of people attempting sourdough starters or generally allowing their inner chef out to play as a means of coping…
Intersectional Thinking Necessary to Address Obesity
This week's headlines are dominated by a series of new papers that address red meat consumption and health. I am not going to discuss those papers in this blog post.…
A Proposed Standard of Obesity Care
Since the 1980s the CDC has been tracking state-level rates of obesity, despite numerous local efforts to alter food and activity environments, the rates of obesity have remained high…
That Gut Feeling – Gut-Brain Communication and Your Mental Health
Treatment advances in many chronic conditions in the next three to five years will likely involve the microbiome and genetic therapies - whether new treatments will involve pre-pro-biotic or fecal…
Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change- The Global Syndemic
The global headlines are often dominated by climate change, famine and the growing rates of obesity- all of which contribute to the worldwide burden of disease. Much work has been…
Evidence Framework for Digital Health
As 2019 comes to a close, digital health ends the year with more funding and a deepening utilization in health care. Thousands of apps exist with a preponderance in mental…
Merging Digital Therapeutics for Better Outcomes- The Next Frontier
The digital health space has seen a vast transformation in 2018 one exciting development that we may see more of in 2019 is cross solution relationships. Earlier this year Weight…
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