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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.
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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-…
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