Mounjaro did what decades of struggle with managing weight couldn’t. Welcome to the post-hunger age.
Will the Ozempic Era Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin?
A popular, growing class of drugs for obesity and diabetes could, in an ideal world, help us see that metabolism and appetite are biological facts, not moral choices.
The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health | Hacker News
I've lost about 100lbs in 2.5 years... The only thing that I really changed was doing a Keto diet. I've learned a lot about nutrition along the way, and it's amazing how bad nutrition info was when I was growing up..
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It's time for a new paradigm.
Generation Adderall (Published 2016)
Like many of my friends, I spent years using prescription stimulants to get through school and start my career. Then I tried to get off them.
Opinion | The Failed War on Drugs (Published 2018)
Attacking rampant drug abuse by trying to shut off the supply has not worked. We need to try a new approach.
The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie
The Long Read: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie
The Long Read: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age (Published 2017)
The agonies of being overweight — or running a diet company — in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.
Not For Human Consumption
Grey market peptides have built a parallel pharmaceutical infrastructure under the thinnest regulatory pretense. The data reveals a cultural contradiction that extends far beyond weight loss.
What if Doctors Stopped Prescribing Weight Loss?
Focusing on body size isn’t making people healthier. Some clinicians are trying a different approach
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food (Published 2013)
Inside the hyperengineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for American “stomach share.”
Sanitizing the Psychedelic Revolution
Big Pharma is rushing to monetize ancient healing practices, but what’s left might not be the same medicine
Why we fell for clean eating
The long read: The oh-so-Instagrammable food movement has been thoroughly debunked – but it shows no signs of going away. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it
Why we fell for clean eating
The long read: The oh-so-Instagrammable food movement has been thoroughly debunked – but it shows no signs of going away. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it
Feed Logic and the Failure to Thrive
Two disquieting works of fiction I encountered this spring feature the same menacing figure: a young girl that refuses to eat. In Ben Lerner’s novel Transcription (2026), doctors inform a couple that their waifish, picky-eating daughter is, in fact, “failing to thrive,” suffering from ARFID (avoidant/restrictive food
