Obesity The Big Truth

Forget what you think you know about obesity.

Let’s Focus on The Science

The Big Truth uses discussion and storytelling by HCP thought leaders to convey scientific information and to engage other health care professionals, experts in the field of obesity AND PATIENTS

Obesity the Big Truth

People living with obesity often face being shamed and blamed because of the harmful misconception that it is self-inflicted.

But it is a belief that is not supported by science. To the contrary, science is increasingly helping us understand that obesity is a frequent, serious, complex, relapsing, and chronic disease.
Obesity: The Big Truth is an initiative to inspire and drive a collective conversation. It provides a framework for experts to discuss the emerging and continually developing science of obesity’s complexities and to dispel the myths.

Physicians and other medical professionals are working alongside lived-experience experts and advocates to host events highlighting the newest science on obesity. This is helping to further everyone’s understanding and helping to overcome the long-held belief—which persists in many areas of healthcare, policymaking, and popular culture—that obesity is an individual’s fault.

We hope you will help us to draw attention to Obesity, The Big Truth.

A scientific paper from the European Association for the Study of Obesity highlights new ways of describing and understanding obesity as a frequent, serious, complex, relapsing, and chronic disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6547280/

Professor Carel le Roux: It is Not Your Fault

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Transcript

As an obesity doctor, the most important thing I can say to patients is that this disease is not your fault. But it’s your responsibility and my responsibility to find a treatment for the disease of obesity. Now, these treatments can be nutritional therapies, pharmacotherapies, or surgical therapies. Important to understand that if you do not respond to one of these treatments, it’s not because you’ve done something wrong.

It’s not the smart people who listen to us that lose a lot of weight or the people that don’t listen that don’t lose weight. It is biology. And if we understand the biology of this disease, then we’re going to treat it like any other disease. So, for example, if somebody responds very well, we continue with that treatment, but if they don’t respond, we either change the treatment or we use a combination of treatments.
And ultimately, that is how we control the biology of the disease in the long term and get most of the health gains that we can from our approaches.

Watch

Dr Andrew Jenkinson, Surgeon and author of the best-selling book “Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite” and Dr George Dimitriadis, Obesity Specialist Endocrinologist, Kings College London, discussing Obesity: The Big Truth in a three-part documentary-style series of videos.

Watch the Video Series

“It’s not the calories in the food. It’s what the food does to the body.”

Dr Andrew Jenkinson