Yoni Freedhoff

Ottawa

Columnist at Medscape

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Articles

Cancer Prevention Bias: Not Mentioning Obesity Interventions

2 weeks ago | medscape.com | Yoni Freedhoff

Why don’t cancer prevention discussions mention obesity medications or bariatric surgery? The answer is probably weight bias because why else wouldn’t medications and surgeries that lead to 15%-20% average body weight losses be discussed in the context of the primary prevention of cancer or in preventing its recurrence? There are many cancers whose incident risks increase and decrease proportionally with weight.
¿qué efecto tienen sobre el aumento de peso?

1 month ago | espanol.medscape.com | Yoni Freedhoff

¿Existen realmente estudios que demuestren que los edulcorantes artificiales aumentan el hambre y provocan aumento de peso? La opinión del Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, director médico del Bariatric Medical Institute, en Ottawa, Canadá.
Maybe Using BMI to Diagnose Obesity is just Fine Actually

1 month ago | medscape.com | Yoni Freedhoff

I’ve written about the controversy over the use of BMI as obesity’s biomarker before. Opponents rightly point out it’s imperfect as it fails to specifically address race, age, gender, and most importantly, body habitus. They believe it’s so flawed that its ongoing use will pathologize many people who are in fact healthy. And to a point, they’re right.
Em defesa dos medicamentos antiobesidade

1 month ago | portugues.medscape.com | Yoni Freedhoff

Você sabia que mais da metade da população adulta mundial terá obesidade até 2050? Que a qualidade de vida relacionada à saúde e os índices de utilidade em saúde são consideravelmente melhores após a cirurgia bariátrica em comparação ao tratamento clínico em pacientes com obesidade e diabetes do tipo 2? E que cinco anos de terapia cognitivo-comportamental on-line, voltada à manutenção de mudanças comportamentais, não foram eficazes na manutenção da perda de peso?
Weighing children in school: No good can come of it

1 month ago | mdedge.com | Yoni Freedhoff

The United Kingdom’s National Obesity Forum has apparently decided that returning to school this fall in the middle of a pandemic isn’t stressful enough for kids, and is recommending that its National Child Measurement Programme be expanded to have 4- to 5-year-old and 10- to 11-year-old children weighed when they return to the classroom – and then weighed again in the spring – in a bid to tackle COVID-19–related gains.
Low- and No-Calorie Sweeteners Not the ‘Dietary Boogeyman’

1 month ago | medscape.com | Yoni Freedhoff

I wish it astonished me that people are still publishing studies about non-nutritive sweeteners’ purported links to weight gain despite the lack of any such finding in formal trials or in the post-market surveillance of these additives’ longstanding and widespread use.
Don’t Bash the Usefulness of Obesity Medicines

2 months ago | medscape.com | Yoni Freedhoff

Did you know that over half the adults on earth will have obesity by 2050? Or that health-related quality of life and health utility after bariatric surgery was markedly better than after medical treatment for patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes? Or that 5 years of web-based cognitive behavior therapy to maintain behavior change didn’t help people to maintain their weight losses? These were the conclusions of three recently published articles. Sounds grim — except for one thing.
Obesity and Public Health - Dare We Have Hope?

Mar 13, 2025 | onlinecjc.ca | Yoni Freedhoff

Get full text accessLog in, subscribe or purchase for full access. REFERENCES:1. Rosenson, R.S. ∙ Kent, S.T. ∙ Brown, T.M. ... Underutilization of high-intensity statin therapy after hospitalization for coronary heart diseaseJ Am Coll Cardiol. 2015; 65:270-2772. Nakamura, R. ∙ Mirelman, A.J. ∙ Cuadrado, C. ... Evaluating the 2014 sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Chile: An observational study in urban areasPLoS Med. 2018; 15, e1002596 Published 2018 Jul 33. Taillie, L.S. ∙ Bercholz, M. ∙ Popkin, B. ...
¿Podemos luchar contra la promoción de la comida chatarra en las redes sociales?

Jan 13, 2025 | espanol.medscape.com | Yoni Freedhoff

close ¿Está seguro que quiere cerrar su sesión? Tres verdades básicas sobre los alimentos ultraprocesados: la comida chatarra, disponible en casi todas partes, sabe muy bien. La publicidad funciona.
Mucho ruido y pocas nueces en el diagnóstico de la obesidad

Jan 9, 2025 | espanol.medscape.com | Yoni Freedhoff

Lo que debemos medir para el diagnóstico de obesidad ha sido durante mucho tiempo un acalorado debate porque el peso corporal por sí solo no nos dice lo suficiente: las básculas miden la atracción gravitatoria de la Tierra en un instante dado, no la presencia o ausencia de salud. Necesitamos algo mejor.