So what we typically see with dieting is that people make behavior changes. After those changes are made, those folks often see health improvements, and sometimes see a small amount of weight loss (at least in the short-term.) Even though the weight loss is small, and often largely simultaneous with the health improvements, the weight loss gets credited with the health changes, rather than seeing both the health changes and the (at least short-term) small amount of weight loss as resulting from the behavior changes.

Giving the credit to weight loss, rather than the initial behavior change, drives a lot of profit to the weight loss industry, but drives a lot of harm to fat patients.

The opposite of “do no harm.”

The natural result of racist device testing and validation.

this asshole thinks that medicine must be unpleasant in order for it to be considered medicine.

this asshole is also apparently unaware that there are people who cannot swallow pills.

this would be mildly interesting if it weren't for the pseudoscientific anti-fat bias.

It’s important to note that none of this research proves that a Covid-19 patient’s high body weight caused their hospitalization, need for a ventilator, or death; it only establishes a tentative correlating relationship. The Annals paper, for example, found no increased risk for folks with overweight or obese BMIs below 40, and no relationship at all for women even at the highest end of the weight range. Nevertheless, “obesity” was added to the collective list of established risk factors for severe Covid-19.

Today a nurse tried to say “Damn China since the news has finally agreed it is a man-made virus from the Lab in Wuhan.” A quick search turned this up, and “all” the media outlets are right wing or known tabloids... hardly “all.”

How can we trust healthcare workers when you don’t know which ones are these whackadoodles?

from 2016.