I'm Joe Graydon.

And I'm Terry Graydon.

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We've all been told that the key to weight loss is to just eat less and exercise more.

Why is that advice unhelpful?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

Two-thirds of American adults are overweight. Our guest today says that shaming and blaming does not work.

The food industry has made processed snacks positively addictive.

Dr. Robert Lustig explains why a little fat in your liver is more worrisome than a lot of fat on your butt. A couple of new weight loss drugs, especially with Gophie, have captured public attention.

Will they fix the obesity epidemic?

Coming up on the people's pharmacy, what everyone gets wrong about weight loss.

In the people's pharmacy health headlines, COVID-19 is still with us.

Earlier in the pandemic, some experts suggested that it might be no more dangerous than the flu.

Now, scientists in Switzerland have published a careful study comparing in-hospital mortality of patients with COVID and those with influenza. The study took

place in the first three months of 2022 and included more than 5,000 patients. At that time, Omicron was the

dominant form of COVID-19 in Switzerland, and 59% of the

patients in the study had COVID. 41% had influenza A or B. Although people with any of these

infections were equally likely to need ICU care, those with COVID were more likely to die while hospitalized. The death rate was

7% for COVID-19 and 4% for the flu. Vaccination did make a difference. Unvaccinated patients with

COVID-19 were twice as likely to die as patients with influenza. Ivermectin is a wonder drug.

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