{"id":13680,"date":"2024-02-15T14:32:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=13680"},"modified":"2024-08-05T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:36:58","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-the-future-of-obesity-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/5-things-to-know-about-the-future-of-obesity-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things to Know About the Future of Obesity Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Beverly Tchang<\/p>\n<p>Source Medscape<\/p>\n<p>As more and more treatments for obesity become available, what does the future hold for these patients? Here are five things that clinicians need to know.<\/p>\n<p>1. Public health officials will prioritize dietary quality over quantity.Dietitians, healthcare providers, and scientists are already prioritizing the quality of calories, and now policymakers are aligning with this goal, with calls for more research on ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) to answer the key question, &#8220;Why do UPFs cause people to eat\u00a0500 more calories per day\u00a0compared with unprocessed foods?&#8221; The food industry has taken notice of the potential\u00a0&#8220;Ozempic effect&#8221;\u00a0associated with reduced spending on groceries and is responding with product lines\u00a0&#8220;designed to complement&#8221;\u00a0glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) while simultaneously\u00a0lobbying against any UPF reform. However, with emerging data on how\u00a0sugar taxes may reduce sales\u00a0and Congress honing in on the\u00a0diabetes epidemic, we are hopeful that change is coming in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/999940\">https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/999940<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Beverly Tchang Source Medscape As more and more treatments for obesity become available, what does the future hold for these patients? Here are five things that clinicians need to know. 1. Public health officials will prioritize dietary quality over quantity.Dietitians, healthcare providers, and scientists are already prioritizing the quality of calories, and now policymakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diet-therapy","category-metabolic-syndrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13683,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions\/13683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}