Should We End OBESITY?

"Obesity is an epidemic, and we urgently need effective treatments", says Dr. Sahar Takkouche, an obesity and bariatric- medicine specialist at Vanderbilt Health. It's unusual for a medication to become a household name; even more uncommon for its branding to become, like Advil, shorthand for an entire class of products; and rarest of all, for it to change not just U.S. medicine, but U.S. culture. And, even though obesity is considered a risk factor for developing heart disease, studies have found overweight patients tend to fare better than thinner patients when they're treated for cardiovascular conditions, a trend known as the "obesity paradox.". [Extracted from the article]