🔥 Older workers face $100B healthcare cost as lifestyle diseases rise
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Older workers face $100B healthcare cost as lifestyle diseases rise
As life expectancy rises, older adults face escalating healthcare costs—projected to hit **$100 billion by 2030**—due to surging **lifestyle diseases** (obesity, diabetes, heart disease) driven by poor habits and aging.
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October 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
🔥 Older workers face $100B healthcare cost as lifestyle diseases rise
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[OPINION: IS OBESITY THE NEW SEXY FASHION TREND?]
It's no secret that many famous celebrities & musicians are trading in dieticians for personal chefs but how will it effect culture at large? Fans, wanting to look like their idols, are growing beyond morbidly obese in an effort to copy them.
It's no secret that many famous celebrities & musicians are trading in dieticians for personal chefs but how will it effect culture at large? Fans, wanting to look like their idols, are growing beyond morbidly obese in an effort to copy them.
October 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
[OPINION: IS OBESITY THE NEW SEXY FASHION TREND?]
It's no secret that many famous celebrities & musicians are trading in dieticians for personal chefs but how will it effect culture at large? Fans, wanting to look like their idols, are growing beyond morbidly obese in an effort to copy them.
It's no secret that many famous celebrities & musicians are trading in dieticians for personal chefs but how will it effect culture at large? Fans, wanting to look like their idols, are growing beyond morbidly obese in an effort to copy them.
Trump’s ‘Fat Shots’ Label for GLP-1s Draws Doctors’ Criticism
Donald Trump's 'fat shots' nickname for GLP-1s has angered doctors and patients, who warn it stigmatises obesity and misrepresents the drugs.
Donald Trump's 'fat shots' nickname for GLP-1s has angered doctors and patients, who warn it stigmatises obesity and misrepresents the drugs.
Trump’s ‘Fat Shots’ Label for GLP-1s Draws Doctors’ Criticism
Donald Trump's 'fat shots' nickname for GLP-1s has angered doctors and patients, who warn it stigmatises obesity and misrepresents the drugs.
qncnews.com
October 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Trump’s ‘Fat Shots’ Label for GLP-1s Draws Doctors’ Criticism
Donald Trump's 'fat shots' nickname for GLP-1s has angered doctors and patients, who warn it stigmatises obesity and misrepresents the drugs.
Donald Trump's 'fat shots' nickname for GLP-1s has angered doctors and patients, who warn it stigmatises obesity and misrepresents the drugs.
🇯🇵 Obesity prevalence in Japan is strikingly low, just 4.7% in men and 4.4% in women, well below rates seen across much of the world. Curious how your country compares?
Explore all 200 on the Observatory: https://ow.ly/oij050ZRoeR
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October 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🇯🇵 Obesity prevalence in Japan is strikingly low, just 4.7% in men and 4.4% in women, well below rates seen across much of the world. Curious how your country compares?
Explore all 200 on the Observatory: https://ow.ly/oij050ZRoeR
#GlobalObesityObservatory #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth
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Unless you are extremly overweight or you feed your kids a poor diet no it doesnt happend.
I belive you on Gender Affirming Healthcare, doctors look for any excuse.
Surgeries are denied cause the obesity CAUSES THE SURGERY TO BE DANGEROUS. Again I know I have large tonsils partly causing apnea.
I belive you on Gender Affirming Healthcare, doctors look for any excuse.
Surgeries are denied cause the obesity CAUSES THE SURGERY TO BE DANGEROUS. Again I know I have large tonsils partly causing apnea.
October 4, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Unless you are extremly overweight or you feed your kids a poor diet no it doesnt happend.
I belive you on Gender Affirming Healthcare, doctors look for any excuse.
Surgeries are denied cause the obesity CAUSES THE SURGERY TO BE DANGEROUS. Again I know I have large tonsils partly causing apnea.
I belive you on Gender Affirming Healthcare, doctors look for any excuse.
Surgeries are denied cause the obesity CAUSES THE SURGERY TO BE DANGEROUS. Again I know I have large tonsils partly causing apnea.
Diet drinks work as well as water for weight loss, major trial finds www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Diet drinks work as well as water for weight loss, major trial finds
A two-year randomized clinical trial involving 493 adults with overweight or obesity found that diet soft drinks were essentially as effective as water for long-term weight loss and weight maintenance...
www.sciencedaily.com
October 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Diet drinks work as well as water for weight loss, major trial finds www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Cured (t)
All of a sudden, Leon showed signs of erectile dysfunction. He had none of the normal common causes such as heart disease, clogged blood vessels, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity or Parkinson's disease. Leon's...
Bakersfield, California 2015
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All of a sudden, Leon showed signs of erectile dysfunction. He had none of the normal common causes such as heart disease, clogged blood vessels, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity or Parkinson's disease. Leon's...
Bakersfield, California 2015
flic.kr/p/Jihj6D
Cured (t)
All of a sudden, Leon showed signs of erectile dysfunction. He had none of the normal common causes such as heart disease, clogged blood vessels, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obes...
flic.kr
October 4, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Cured (t)
All of a sudden, Leon showed signs of erectile dysfunction. He had none of the normal common causes such as heart disease, clogged blood vessels, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity or Parkinson's disease. Leon's...
Bakersfield, California 2015
flic.kr/p/Jihj6D
All of a sudden, Leon showed signs of erectile dysfunction. He had none of the normal common causes such as heart disease, clogged blood vessels, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity or Parkinson's disease. Leon's...
Bakersfield, California 2015
flic.kr/p/Jihj6D
As a veterinarian, no they do not. Stop trying to justify obesity in dogs. It’s not cute and it’s entirely preventable.
October 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM
As a veterinarian, no they do not. Stop trying to justify obesity in dogs. It’s not cute and it’s entirely preventable.
ICYMI: New content online: Effects of weight cycling in the presence and absence of obesity
Effects of weight cycling in the presence and absence of obesity
Nature Reviews Endocrinology, Published online: 02 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41574-026-01311-3As highly potent weight loss drugs become available, interest grows in whether repeated cycles of weight loss and regain can exacerbate obesity. We argue that weight cycling might contribute to the development of obesity in susceptible lean individuals but seems to have little effect on the progression of obesity and its complications.
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October 4, 2026 at 1:12 PM
ICYMI: New content online: Effects of weight cycling in the presence and absence of obesity
Children as young as 8 in the US are being prescribed off-label GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, sparking debate about the potential long-term health effects
Should we use GLP-1 drugs to treat obesity in children? | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com
October 4, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Children as young as 8 in the US are being prescribed off-label GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, sparking debate about the potential long-term health effects
Is obesity-related gut slowing only about muscle? In obese mice, blocking a receptor that senses calcium sped intestinal transit without changing how quickly the stomach emptied.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2025.105008
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2025.105008
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October 4, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Is obesity-related gut slowing only about muscle? In obese mice, blocking a receptor that senses calcium sped intestinal transit without changing how quickly the stomach emptied.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2025.105008
#NeuroscienceResearch #Neuroscience #GutBrain
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2025.105008
#NeuroscienceResearch #Neuroscience #GutBrain
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October 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Kim Jong Un has gained so much weight that he is now heavy enough to compete as a sumo wrestler.
Kim Jong Un obesity fears as diet could prove fatal, spies warn
www.irishstar.com
October 4, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Kim Jong Un has gained so much weight that he is now heavy enough to compete as a sumo wrestler.
Higher Workload, not Hypoxia, Enhances Acute Mitochondrial Respiratory Responses to High-Intensity Interval Exercise in Men with Overweight or Obesity
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October 4, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Higher Workload, not Hypoxia, Enhances Acute Mitochondrial Respiratory Responses to High-Intensity Interval Exercise in Men with Overweight or Obesity
www.ovid.com/jnls/acsm-ms...
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his corn! Obesity Waters, whose crazy cow! Fart! George President of Ukraine numbers with Hispanics Trump Campaign penis of the Erection! Taylor Swift has never and so good Crooked Joe Biden Mike Huckabee the letters DIARRHEA and Peter Navarro.....
October 4, 2026 at 10:24 AM
his corn! Obesity Waters, whose crazy cow! Fart! George President of Ukraine numbers with Hispanics Trump Campaign penis of the Erection! Taylor Swift has never and so good Crooked Joe Biden Mike Huckabee the letters DIARRHEA and Peter Navarro.....
This isn't about individual children or choices. It's about the food environments, health systems and policies shaping the next generation's health.
The Global Obesity Forum meets in Madrid this October to help change this.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/pnKV50ZRpIO
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The Global Obesity Forum meets in Madrid this October to help change this.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/pnKV50ZRpIO
#PublicHealth
Global Obesity Forum 2026 | World Obesity Federation
The Global Obesity Forum will convene in Madrid on 26 October.
ow.ly
October 4, 2026 at 10:00 AM
This isn't about individual children or choices. It's about the food environments, health systems and policies shaping the next generation's health.
The Global Obesity Forum meets in Madrid this October to help change this.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/pnKV50ZRpIO
#PublicHealth
The Global Obesity Forum meets in Madrid this October to help change this.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/pnKV50ZRpIO
#PublicHealth
I’m not someone who calls out obesity, I’m not that kind of person.
October 4, 2026 at 9:57 AM
I’m not someone who calls out obesity, I’m not that kind of person.
Is coffee good or bad? Studies vary, but this New Orleans cardiologist has done the research.
->Times-Picayune | More on "Coffee consumption and heart health" at BigEarthData.ai
->Times-Picayune | More on "Coffee consumption and heart health" at BigEarthData.ai
Is coffee good or bad? Studies vary, but this New Orleans cardiologist has done the research.
Dr. Carl “Chip” Lavie has been a cardiologist at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans since 1989, specializing in preventive cardiology, obesity management, cardiac rehabilitation, exercise physiology, and advanced cardiac imaging. He has been an active researcher with more than 1,900 medical articles. Dr. Lavie published his first paper on the effects of drinking coffee 15 years ago, at a time when public perception was that caffeine and coffee were bad for you. Is that how you first became interested in the health effects related to coffee consumption? Coffee is one of the most commonly consumed pharmacologically active beverages across the world, with over 50% of Americans above the age of 18 drinking coffee on a daily basis, and another 30% of the population consuming it occasionally. The remarkably high prevalence and frequent consumption of this beverage is a big opportunity, because even small health effects from coffee — positive or negative — could translate into large effects on public health. It just so happens that for decades, the public narrative was saying something negative about coffee’s effects on us. This narrative suggested that its stimulatory effects could raise blood pressure and cause adverse effects on...
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October 4, 2026 at 9:25 AM
I'd imagine the health insurance industry - notoriously reluctant to treat obesity as the chronic disease it is - is just lapping this up.
In any case, no. Spades are spades. Eugenics is eugenics.
Even if the call is coming from inside the house.
In any case, no. Spades are spades. Eugenics is eugenics.
Even if the call is coming from inside the house.
October 4, 2026 at 9:19 AM
I'd imagine the health insurance industry - notoriously reluctant to treat obesity as the chronic disease it is - is just lapping this up.
In any case, no. Spades are spades. Eugenics is eugenics.
Even if the call is coming from inside the house.
In any case, no. Spades are spades. Eugenics is eugenics.
Even if the call is coming from inside the house.
When we discuss the anti-vaxxer movements attempts to reduce vaccination take-up, we often describe that (correctly IMO) as part of a eugenic agenda.
But we're to think that reducing access to obesity treatment isn't? Now that we finally have non-invasive treatments that work well for many?
But we're to think that reducing access to obesity treatment isn't? Now that we finally have non-invasive treatments that work well for many?
October 4, 2026 at 9:19 AM
When we discuss the anti-vaxxer movements attempts to reduce vaccination take-up, we often describe that (correctly IMO) as part of a eugenic agenda.
But we're to think that reducing access to obesity treatment isn't? Now that we finally have non-invasive treatments that work well for many?
But we're to think that reducing access to obesity treatment isn't? Now that we finally have non-invasive treatments that work well for many?
A moral panic stemming from guilt is one thing - but 'eugenics'? Aren't you being dramatic?
Am I?
Obesity can kill. As someone who has had it almost all my life, I really wish it couldn't, but it can.
It kills quickly and it kills slowly. And it kills a lot.
www.cdc.gov/obesity/php/...
Am I?
Obesity can kill. As someone who has had it almost all my life, I really wish it couldn't, but it can.
It kills quickly and it kills slowly. And it kills a lot.
www.cdc.gov/obesity/php/...
Consequences of Obesity
People who have obesity are at increased risk for many serious health conditions
www.cdc.gov
October 4, 2026 at 9:19 AM
A moral panic stemming from guilt is one thing - but 'eugenics'? Aren't you being dramatic?
Am I?
Obesity can kill. As someone who has had it almost all my life, I really wish it couldn't, but it can.
It kills quickly and it kills slowly. And it kills a lot.
www.cdc.gov/obesity/php/...
Am I?
Obesity can kill. As someone who has had it almost all my life, I really wish it couldn't, but it can.
It kills quickly and it kills slowly. And it kills a lot.
www.cdc.gov/obesity/php/...
So why? Why do they want this?
Initially I thought it was mostly psychology. Obesity has historically been treated as a moral failing (we get our own deadly sin!), with the result that there's a social license to be cruel to people who have it. And that cruelty doesn't always come from strangers.
Initially I thought it was mostly psychology. Obesity has historically been treated as a moral failing (we get our own deadly sin!), with the result that there's a social license to be cruel to people who have it. And that cruelty doesn't always come from strangers.
October 4, 2026 at 9:19 AM
So why? Why do they want this?
Initially I thought it was mostly psychology. Obesity has historically been treated as a moral failing (we get our own deadly sin!), with the result that there's a social license to be cruel to people who have it. And that cruelty doesn't always come from strangers.
Initially I thought it was mostly psychology. Obesity has historically been treated as a moral failing (we get our own deadly sin!), with the result that there's a social license to be cruel to people who have it. And that cruelty doesn't always come from strangers.
Those encouraging this moral panic tend to discount the treatment experiences of people with obesity - a rhetorical move made really easy by obesity's societal associations with greed, laziness, stupidity, weakness and lack of willpower.
October 4, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Those encouraging this moral panic tend to discount the treatment experiences of people with obesity - a rhetorical move made really easy by obesity's societal associations with greed, laziness, stupidity, weakness and lack of willpower.