Ep. 6 – "Fat and fiction" Considering the risks and benefits of weight loss and weight loss drugs with Ragen Chastain and Dr. Joel Lexchin

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Pharmanipulation

PharmedOut

12 episodes

6 days ago

Pharmanipulation explores how industry markets not only drugs, but diseases, and exposes ineffective or harmful practices in medicine. This series takes an evidence-based, edgy, and entertaining approach to health and medicine. Each episode features an interview with topic experts and provides resources to learn more about how the pharmaceutical and medical device industries influence medical knowledge and public health. Pharmanipulation is a podcast by PharmedOut, a rational prescribing project at Georgetown University Medical Center, directed by Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman.

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Ep. 6 – "Fat and fiction" Considering the risks and benefits of weight loss and weight loss drugs with Ragen Chastain and Dr. Joel Lexchin

Pharmanipulation

33 minutes 50 seconds

2 years ago

Ep. 6 – "Fat and fiction" Considering the risks and benefits of weight loss and weight loss drugs with Ragen Chastain and Dr. Joel Lexchin

Episode 6 invites Ragen Chastain, activist and author, and Joel Lexchin MD of York University, to discuss myths about weight and health, the hype around Ozempic and Wegovy, and the unclear connection between weight loss and health.

Pharmanipulation is produced by PharmedOut, a project at Georgetown University Medical Center that advances evidence-based prescribing.

To learn more about Ragen Chastain and her work, please visit her website: https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/

Additional Resources

Dances With Fat Monthly Workshop – September: Navigating Weight Stigma at the Doctor’s Office date changed from September 27 to October 11 to avoid overlap with ASDAH’s annual meeting. Link: https://danceswithfat.org/monthly-online-workshops/

Books

“Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” by Sabrina Strings. Link: https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/

“Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness” by Da'Shaun L. Harrison. Link: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670607/belly-of-the-beast-by-dashaun-harrison/

Articles

"Semaglutide: a new drug for the treatment of obesity" by Joel Lexchin and Barbara Mintzes. Drug Ther Bull. 2023 Oct 25:dtb-2023-000007. doi: 10.1136/dtb.2023.000007. Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37879878/

“How the ‘It's Bigger Than Me’ Campaign Is Harming Fat People for Profit" by Ragen Chastain. Link: https://themighty.com/topic/eating-disorders/its-bigger-than-me-campaign-harms-fat-people-for-profit/

“Weighing the Consequences of Weight-Loss Drugs” by Judy Butler and Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman. Link: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/104482

Igho J. Onakpoya, Carl J. Heneghan and Jeffrey K. Aronson. Post-marketing withdrawal of anti-obesity medicinal products because of adverse drug reactions: a systematic review. BMC Medicine 2016;14:191. Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27894343/

Prescrire’s "Semaglutide (Wegovy°) for excess body weight" Prescrire International 2023; 32 (245): 36-38. Link: https://english.prescrire.org/en/81/168/66102/0/NewsDetails.aspx

Please note: the full article is available for subscribers only.

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