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Ted Kyle and ConscienHealth work with experts to advance sound approaches to health and obesity, the biggest threat to America's health for this century.

ConscienHealth works with experts and organizations to advance sound approaches to health and obesity, the biggest threat to the health of America in this century. We advocate for evidence-based prevention and treatment. We help organizations develop strategies to advance new options from research to adoption in clinical practice and health policy. We develop strategies that are based on sound science, public policy, and a deep understanding of consumer needs. We help experts and advocates to educate the public and provide a voice for people affected by obesity.

04/15/2026

Fear mongers often dominate public discourse about artificial sweeteners. But if you stop and look at the data it tells a very different story from the strong feelings they convey. Two new studies.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/15/strong-feelings-on-sweeteners-dont-match-the-data/

04/14/2026

The history of insulin has a thing or two to teach us about what's unfolding now with GLP-1s and their potential successors, says Liam Shaw in London Review of Books.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/14/does-the-history-of-insulin-rhyme-with-glp-1s/

04/13/2026

“America has a new GLP-1 playbook,” writes Nicholas Florko in The Atlantic. Yep, ever so slowly, our discourse about GLP-1s is shifting from short-term (weight loss) to long term (better health). Wegovy and Foundayo tablets are sparking it.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/13/glp-1-tablets-are-part-of-a-shift-in-discourse-about-obesity/

04/12/2026

There is nothing like the Obesity Action Coalition - OAC YWM Convention – connecting obesity science with the real lives of people with obesity. Register now and get the best early bird rates. This is a meeting not to miss.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/12/connecting-science-with-real-life-at-the-oac-convention/

04/11/2026

If you want to know why obesity care in youth is so important, just take a look at this new study in The New England Journal of Medicine. As in has risen to record levels, so too has . Obesity care can prevent it.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/11/type-2-diabetes-in-youth-has-risen-70-since-2013/

04/10/2026

No, high obesity rates do not explain the record low rates of fertility in the U.S. But clearly, high rates of does have an effect on as part of a big, complex situation. New data from CDC.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/10/record-low-fertility-comes-with-high-obesity-rates/

04/09/2026

Leaders of Bias180 say it's time for a reset of obesity prevention strategies. Deeply entrenched assumptions promote .
HT: Ximena Ramos Salas, Angela Alberga, Brad Hussey, Francine Small
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/09/ready-to-rethink-the-bias-embedded-in-prevention/

04/08/2026

Headlines have it that obesity medicines are sparking a "divorce boom" and killing our impulse for love.

We have a word for The Guardian and The Telegraph. You're too late for April Fools' Day. Do better.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/08/falling-out-of-love-on-obesity-medicines/

04/07/2026

In new dietary guidance, the American Heart Association begs to differ with some of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr's messaging on a healthy diet. Will the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and AHA work collaboratively on points of agreement? Or will a hearty appetite for controversy take over?
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/07/aha-guidance-on-plants-meat-and-saturated-fat/

04/06/2026

In new clinical guidance, the Endocrine Society says Lancet Commission work on is a meaningful advance, but has practical issues. The lead author on the Lancet work, Francesco Rubino, says they're mistaken.

Clearly, though, dialogue and refinement are needed.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/06/unfinished-business-in-diagnosing-clinical-obesity/

04/05/2026

For the second year in a row, our president is planning massive cuts to science that will only accelerate the in American science unfolding right before us. This is a path that leads to economic stagnation and a dearth of innovation.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/05/an-american-brain-drain-in-science-unfolds/

04/04/2026

True to the spirit of “My Dog’s Better Than Your Dog,” Novo Nordisk pushed out PR spin based on a “simulated treatment comparison” to claim that its Wegovy tablets are better than Foundayo tablets from Eli Lilly and Company. Pass the grain of salt, please.🙄
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/04/04/competition-and-the-fiction-of-a-best-obesity-treatment/

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