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Ted Kyle and ConscienHealth work with experts to advance sound approaches to health and obesity, the biggest threat to America's health for this century.

ConscienHealth works with experts and organizations to advance sound approaches to health and obesity, the biggest threat to the health of America in this century. We advocate for evidence-based prevention and treatment. We help organizations develop strategies to advance new options from research to adoption in clinical practice and health policy. We develop strategies that are based on sound science, public policy, and a deep understanding of consumer needs. We help experts and advocates to educate the public and provide a voice for people affected by obesity.

10/19/2026

Though some businesses in obesity telehealth might deserve their ubiquitous caricature, we're a bit tired of the broad brush. Especially because new research continues to show its value.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/10/19/beyond-caricatures-of-telehealth-for-obesity-care/

10/18/2026

Trade, tariffs, environment, and a war with Iran are turning banana-nomics upside down and threatening to put this affordable fruit out of reach for the many people who love it. Humans must take pity on the poor banana lest we lose its pleasures.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/10/18/bananas-are-in-trouble-banana-nomics-are-falling-apart/

10/17/2026

Food marketing has a purpose. Public health policy has a different one. When nutrition advocates tout quasi-medicinal benefits of food, they should take care not to serve marketing purposes more than population health.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/10/17/health-claims-on-food-promote-sales-more-than-health/

10/16/2026

For years, the race to develop obesity medicines has revolved around a simple number: average weight loss. It seems that each new drug must beat the last one to count as progress. But this fixation is becoming counterproductive.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/10/16/looking-beyond-the-average-effect-of-obesity-medicines/

10/15/2026

Headlines this week are telling us modern agriculture has quietly stripped half the nutrition from our vegetables and grains. As if that’s not enough clickbait, the stories add that the rise of obesity medicines could add a factor to leave millions of people dangerously deficient in essential nutrients.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/10/15/vegetables-grain-have-lost-half-their-nutrition-value/

10/14/2026

A new commission report from The Lancet asks: What are the major threats to human health for this century? The answer puts obesity among 17 major threats that will shape human health and well-being through the end of this century.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/10/14/obesity-among-17-lancet-global-connected-threats-to-health/

10/13/2026

The economic penalty for obesity extends beyond medical bills. A new study in Social Science & Medicine offers fresh evidence, while revealing how difficult it is to separate this effect from the many other factors that shape economic opportunity.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/10/13/new-insight-into-the-economic-penalty-for-obesity/

10/12/2026

The rallying cry at Novo Nordisk is "consumer obsession." So marketing campaigns are about "living lighter" and a "summer glow-up." Will this be the formula for regaining ground lost to Eli Lilly and Company?
HT: STAT
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/10/12/torn-between-obesity-care-and-consumer-weight-loss/

10/11/2026

When employers and health plans slash coverage of obesity care, they can claim an immediate financial win – less spending. But what looks like prudent cost control today may turn out to be a remarkably poor for both public and private interests in health.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/10/11/does-it-matter-that-obesity-care-is-in-the-public-interest/

10/10/2026

In a very short time, we have lost parts of our microbiome that were with us for ages. What is the significance? Can we discover it before the evidence is gone?
HT: Nature, The New York Times
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/10/10/grieving-the-microbes-we-have-lost/

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