When it comes to recommending weight loss, healthcare has always had what I call a Best Case Scenario Problem. I think the best way for patients to protect ourselves from this is to understand it so that we can spot it when it’s happening so in Part 1 I’ll examine how this works (in the past and currently) around behavior-based interventions and then in part 2 we’ll look at how GLP-1s are driving an increase in this problem and creating even more harm and what we can do if this problem happens to us.

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