This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! Starting in 1977, the World Health Organization (WHO) began publishing a list of essential medications. Beginning in 2007 they began publishing a second list for children. They define these medications as
This thread has been moderated. While I welcome those, including physicians, who are fully invested in the size-as-disease model (philosophically and/or financially) to read this newsletter, this is not a place to espouse that viewpoint. For more information on the issues with the science in the research on these drugs, this is a place to start:
I’m pretty concerned about this increase in people going outside their lane and putting their name on shit that really isn’t their area of expertise.
I’m even more concerned that other people are treating them as subject matter experts.
Adding these drugs to the essential medicines list cheapens the rest of the list and makes it real hard to trust WHO’s advice, when they’re even ENTERTAINING THE IDEA of adding these drugs. It’s almost like the WHO itself has jumped the shark.
This thread has been moderated. While I welcome those, including physicians, who are fully invested in the size-as-disease model (philosophically and/or financially) to read this newsletter, this is not a place to espouse that viewpoint. For more information on the issues with the science in the research on these drugs, this is a place to start:
https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/weight-loss-drugs-part-3-wegovy-and
I’m pretty concerned about this increase in people going outside their lane and putting their name on shit that really isn’t their area of expertise.
I’m even more concerned that other people are treating them as subject matter experts.
Adding these drugs to the essential medicines list cheapens the rest of the list and makes it real hard to trust WHO’s advice, when they’re even ENTERTAINING THE IDEA of adding these drugs. It’s almost like the WHO itself has jumped the shark.