News
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: December 6, 2024
Obesity medications are superior to diet exercise for sustained weight loss, data finds.
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: December 5, 2024
Human nature and inconvenient truths around food are incredibly powerful forces that we haven’t yet figured out how to tame.
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: July 3, 2024
It’s remarkable that South Park, a show built on serving up politically incorrect offense, covers obesity and it...
News
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: June 4, 2024
Burgers aimed at those taking GLP-1s will be smaller and lower calorie, but with higher levels of fat and protein than regular-size burgers.
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: February 16, 2024
How much of societal diet-related scientific illiteracy can be blamed on the publication decisions of medical journals around food studies?
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: January 19, 2024
The US Preventive Services Task Force has published draft recommendations that 6-year-olds with obesity be lectured to about diet an...
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: August 25, 2023
Here we have a paper that concludes with the inference of surprise that few people, without treatment, lost clinically meaningful amounts of weight...
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: July 18, 2023
Stopping medications for obesity when weight is lost. Do you also stop blood pressure medications when they normalize a patient’s blood pressure?
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: March 31, 2023
Patients are regularly seen discontinuing or reducing the dosage of multiple medications as a result of improvements to multiple weight-responsive ...
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: January 27, 2023
For childhood obesity, we thankfully now have a number of effective treatment options that we can offer, and it’s only our societal weight bias tha...
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: December 13, 2022
Thousands of genes and dozens of hormones are involved in our individual levels of hunger, cravings, and fullness.
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: August 18, 2022
Why are medical journals, even preeminent nonpredatory ones, publishing 12-week weight-loss program studies as if they have value?
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: April 29, 2022
Do you have chairs suitable for patients with obesity? A scale that measures up to high weights that’s in a private location? Appropriately sized b...
News
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: September 1, 2021
Will eating a single hot dog really cost you 36 minutes of healthy life? Researchers need to stop studying single foods’ impacts on health, says Dr...
Opinion
- Author:
- Yoni Freedhoff, MD
Publish date: August 25, 2020
SARS-CoV-2 has been found in cardiac tissue of a child with multisystem inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19, believed to be first evidence of...
