On August 1, 2024, North Carolina Medicaid launched coverage for glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1s) drugs for weight loss despite the State Health Plan (SHP) ending coverage on April 1, 2024.
“Everything you know about obesity is wrong.” Whether you believe fat people are failures, skinny people are health, diets work, or exercise will make you thin, it is not necessarily…
In Bell, California, where corrupt city officials looted the treasury, the corruption trial of Angela Spaccia continues. Yesterday’s revelations show the depths to which corrupt officials will sink. The city…
Fox News is the only US outlet that shows up on Google News as running a story on a new analysis that shows diets leave people heavier and less healthy.
George, I was interested to learn that a leading advocate for “fat studies” is a professor who lost 70 pounds and — consequently — no longer fits the definition of…
Jon Ham’s post on school lunches brings us back to the problem of diets and obesity. Consider these points from the article he found. Researchers concluded that pupils whose school…
A 400-lb guy started walking across from California to NYC in a stunt he calls, Fat Man Walking. He’s outside Dayton now and has lost 114-lbs, which leads to the…
Okay, sure I ought to drop a few pounds, but that would be excessive.
Darn–there was something I was going to say about this but I forget.
Thursday’s Boston Globe carried this story, an example of our country’s growing demand that there be a pill to solve every problem, even when it ‘s something most of us…