Ted Kyle, RPh, MBA

Americans with obesity and overweight are at greater risk for more severe COVID-19. Clinicians can support them best by asking how they can help.

The health benefits of sustained weight loss for persons with obesity could be a valuable topic when a discussion is opened.

If we understand how the disease of obesity compounds COVID-19 severity, how do we put that knowledge to work?

The physiology of obesity makes weight loss, by itself, unlikely to successfully treat the chronic disease of obesity. What does this mean for primary care clinical strategies?

Changes in primary care for obesity have moved rapidly in some ways but less so in others. Obesity medicine advocate Ted Kyle details the overall steady progress.

Obesity Medicine is a young specialty but is expanding quickly in response to the global epidemic of obesity and the many chronic diseases it causes.