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Flipping the Script on Attitudes About Obesity

With the advent of GLP-1 drugs, perspectives about weight management are changing. Ted Kyle hopes the food industry can make some changes, too, to better serve all consumers.
Ted Kyle
Mary Ellen Kuhn Mary Ellen Kuhn

Food Technology Magazine

For those living with overweight or obesity, weight bias and stigma can be very real. The growing use of GLP-1 medications to treat obesity has the potential to change that reality for many. It may also change some market realities for food companies.

Health-care professional and obesity policy advocate Ted Kyle has been thinking about the impact of obesity on individuals and society for decades, and in 2009, he founded a Pittsburgh-based company called ConscienHealth, which focuses on evidenced-based prevention and treatment of obesity.

Too often, Kyle says, obesity is viewed as a character flaw rather than a health problem.

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  • Mary Ellen Kuhn

    Mary Ellen Kuhn Executive Editor

    Mary Ellen Kuhn, executive editor and assistant director of publications, oversees the editorial content of Food Technology magazine.

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