Addressing Misconceptions in Obesity: Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches
The management of persons with obesity is challenging, made even greater due to the numerous myths and misconceptions among patients and clinicians. For example, “Obesity is a choice, not a disease.” “Weight loss of at least 10% is needed for any health benefit.” “Drugs should not be used because weight will only be regained once they are discontinued.” Science and clinical experience, however, tell us otherwise.
Episodes
- Safety and efficacy of FDA-approved obesity medications and role of lifestyle modifications
- Myth: “Drugs should not be used to treat obesity, because weight will only be regained once weight-loss medications are discontinued”
- Myth: “All long-term weight-loss medications provide similar weight loss”
- Myth: “Lifestyle modifications are not as important once a weight-loss medication is started
- Myth: “Selection of a weight-loss...
- Myth: “Low fat diets are the best way to reduce body fat”
- Myth: “Increased physical exercise is the most effective way to reduce body weight
- Behavior modification
- Myth: “Vitamins and herbal supplements are effective in achieving weight reduction”
- Myth: “Bariatric surgery is considered the ‘easy way out’ and reserved for patients who are failures and ‘cheaters’ and is too dangerous for everyone else”
- Key principles of pharma...
- Benefits of treating obesity as a disease
- Myth: “Weight loss of at least 10% over 6 months is needed for any health benefit”
- Myth: “Slow and gradual weight reduction is ultimately more effective than large and rapid weight loss”
- Misconception: “Obesity is classified solely on BMI”
- Myth: “There is no staging system available for determining obesity-related morbidity and mortality”
- Misconception: “Obesity is a choice, not a disease”
- Myth: “Individuals with obesity have low metabolism”
- Obesity Medicine Association practice statements
- Companion social media resource for patients
- Obesity definitions and key milestones
- Diagnostic codes
- Current state of treatment
- Steps to combat clinician inertia
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