Julia Belluz
@juliaoftoronto
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Health journalist working on nutrition, metabolism & obesity book Former @voxdotcom, @MIT Knight Fellow etc. @[email protected] & [email protected]
Paris, France
Joined September 2009
🚨Personal news alert🚨 I'm on the Substacks. I'll mostly share newly published pieces, and sometimes, ideas in progress. You can sign up through my website here.
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RT @CaulfieldTim: The new book arrived! 🎉 Always so, so exciting to hold the actual book! As every author knows, it is a long journey! So…
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RT @JerryMande: BREAKING..@KevinH_PhD presents preliminary data from long awaited (6yrs!) follow-up study. Confirm initial findings. Energy…
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@pash22 @sib313 @felly500 @DHSCgovuk @wesstreeting @NICEComms @CraigNikolic @mancunianmedic @SebRees1 @HPIAndyCowper @Davewwest @jburnmurdoch @FT @nytimes Thanks @pash22. Curious @jburnmurdoch take on this: My read of the data is that the plateau predated widespread uptake of Ozempic. I wrote about that a while back here:
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RT @foodfixco: Officials have been warning for decades that America’s obesity rate has been marching upward at an alarming pace, but we sti…
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RT @elaineywchen: It seems a little early to attribute this to GLP-1 drugs. As @juliaoftoronto @jaspar reported last year, obesity rates in…
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@ConscienHealth @nytimes Thanks for this! I do still think measures like BMI have a place in screening (because we don't have ways to directly ID and measure problematic fat). But patients deserve something more precise for diagnosis. So it's great @FRubinoMD's Lancet commission are working on it!
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RT @ConscienHealth: Amidst remarkable progress in scientific insights into #obesity, #MedicalGroupthink, overreliance on #BMI, and biased m…
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RT @CaulfieldTim: Are We Thinking About #Obesity All Wrong? @BevTchangMD: “The problem is that we’ve allowed soci…
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RT @AnilOza16: if you like rats ... subscribe to @statnews's morning rounds for tomorrow's edition 😉 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀
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RT @nytopinion: “Obesity, as it’s currently understood, doesn’t reflect what we now know about body fat. It makes patients out of people wh…
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RT @hbottemiller: I wrote about how @RobertfKennedJr is influencing Trump world on food issues for @foodfixco last week. ⤵️ The politics o…
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@BevTchangMD @nytimes Thank you for your very clear and thoughtful science communication, always. So helpful (and rare)!
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RT @JerryMande: Yet we spend less than 5% of @NIH budget on nutrition and Congress and @NIHDirector refuse to fund NIH's Office of Nutritio…
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RT @nytopinion: “Obesity, as it’s currently understood, doesn’t reflect what we now know about body fat. It makes patients out of people wh…
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RT @KingsCollegeLon: Are we thinking about obesity wrong? Should BMI be used as a diagnostic tool? Professor Francesco Rubino @FRubinoMD…
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Thanks to all the folks who helped me understand the debate, @FRubinoMD @BevTchangMD @Grannell @DanielJDrucker @AditiJuneja3 , among many others And some context for the piece in my Substack here:
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