Obesity Is a Disease Like Any Other, But Should It Be Treated Differently? | Dr. Jamie Kane

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Obesity is a disease that is becoming increasingly difficult to treat. Unlike other diseases, the path to treatment isn't as clear with obesity numbers exploding worldwide.

Obesity expert Dr. Jamie Kane joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast for insight into the battle against a disease that can be as deadly as any other. Yet few see it as the beast that it is.

-- Topics Discussed --

- Weight Watchers “gambling everything” on weight loss medication

- Overcoming your body's desire to keep weight on

- Obesity bias in medicine

- Being obese vs. having obesity

- What's missing from weight loss treatment?

- Can medication work without lifestyle changes?

- Long-term success rates of weight loss medication

- Side effects of weight loss medication

- Constipation caused by weight loss medication

Dr. Kane will be speaking at the 2023 International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine.

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International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine

Tickets: https://www.pcrm.org/icnm

When: August 10-12

Where: Washington, DC — Grand Hyatt

Who: Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Michael Greger, Chuck Carroll, Dr. Kristi Funk, Dr. Gemma Newman, and more

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0:00.0	Coming up on the exam room obesity medicine. It's really kind of interesting when you hear
0:07.1	those two things together it really kind of does drive home this point that even though
0:11.8	obesity is so normalized in our society and even globally now it is still a disease
0:18.9	isn't it?
0:19.9	Yeah I think that that's in the last five years and you can talk about the intention
0:25.4	behind it but there's really been a lot of talk about changing the terminology into saying
0:31.6	this is a chronic disease it's not just a lifestyle choice. Now within that there's a lot
0:36.6	of subtlety but yeah definitely is and anyone who's ever gained a lot of weight and taken
0:42.2	it off or tried to take it off and dealt with the long-term consequences could echo that.
0:56.4	Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I am the Weight
1:02.1	Lost Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to
1:07.5	coast in the U.S. and in more than 150 countries. Hi to everyone listening in San Diego, California,
1:15.5	Miramar, Florida, and Casa Blanca, Morocco. Wherever you are we appreciate you helping to make the
1:22.7	world a healthier place. This is episode 64 of season 6, number 460 overall and this one comes
1:32.9	on the heels of big-time news that Weight Watchers is quote gambling everything on obesity drugs
1:41.4	and the big financial publication Bloomberg even speculates that ozemic and weight govy they
1:47.3	may save the 60-year-old company if they don't kill it first and so this really speaks to the
1:56.5	heart of the two words that you heard right at the start of the podcast today obesity medicine
2:04.8	because obesity is a disease just like any other and often it's the precursor for the big ones
2:14.8	like cancer and heart disease. So today we have with us the Chief of Obesity Medicine at
2:21.2	Northwell Health and the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Dr. Jamie Kane. He specializes in this
2:30.0	and there are lots of interesting angles that we can take here. Some that are going to take me
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