The Great Fat Fraud

Of late, Big Pharma and Obesity Inc. have been very unhappy, not to say apoplectic, with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  Why?  Because the FDA has turned down all their recent applications for new weight-loss drugs. “Everybody in the obesity field is upset. There is a lot of anger,” says Dr. Donna Ryan, past president of the Obesity Society in a December, 2010 article.  The FDA treats drugs for obesity “as if they were in a different category,” said Judith Stern, UC Davis professor … Continue reading →

People often say to me “There are all these health experts and scientists and government officials constantly sounding the alarm about the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ and its terrible health consequences. Are you saying that all these experts are wrong?  How could that be?” It could be because there is a huge amount of money involved.  The total revenues of the weight loss industry are in the neighborhood of $60 billion a year.  And a lot of that revenue depends on people believing that fat is a … Continue reading →