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Associate Professor of Family Medicine @UOttawa/Exclusively obesity medicine since 2004/Bylines spanning from The Lancet to the NYTs/הנני
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My latest in @medscape.com - remember that recent ginormous The Lancet paper that among other things was highly critical of the use of BMI to diagnose obesity that instead recommended either the use of BMI along with a secondary marker of excess adiposity /1

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Her name is Leah, and I am her father (as promised - father/daughter tattoos for getting into her University of choice)

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It seems it's now official. Lilly has effectively levied a fat tax on Canadian prescriptions of its diabetes and obesity medication tirzepatide (aka Mounjaro/Zepbound) whereby if prescribed for obesity, you'll pay nearly double what you'd pay if prescribed for diabetes. More in my Substack

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My latest on Medscape covers a recently published study that both traditional media and social media reported as being proof that Splenda increases hunger (and of course as a consequence, increases weight). Sounds scary. Unless you actually read the paper 🧵

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My latest in Medscape discusses 3 recent examples of how studies regarding obesity that ignore obesity medications, despite their being our current standard of care in obesity's treatment, do a disservice to readers, reporters, and the public. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

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Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Mar 16. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces

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My latest, published ahead of print in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology looks at the historic failure of public health to move the needle on chronic non-communicable diseases like obesity, and its historic opportunity now to find some success /🧵

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Recorded a podcast about antisemitism in medicine in Canada and other relatedly depressing topics open.substack.com/pub/awakefro...

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My latest on @medscape.com explores the futility of weight loss diet studies. Brief thread to cover the basic arguments with link to story at the end /1

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Short thread on my latest for @medscape.com explores why, despite their incredible benefit, so many people stop their anti-obesity medications? /1

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My first Bluesky non-preemptive moron block!

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