Freedhoff’s Feelings Aren’t Facts - Part 1

If the name Yoni Freedhoff sounds familiar, it may be from the Natasha Wiebe’s guest post about her experience going to an “ob*sity” summit. She recounted:“Yoni Freedhoff is a physician from Ottawa and I had seen him featured in at least one documentary on ob*sity and on other media platforms. I had low expectations, and he exceeded those. At the beginning of his talk, he shared the question that he had asked of a number of Large Language Models (like ChatGPT and Claude): how much weight a person could lose today given these latest WL drugs and bariatric surgery? They all gave some answer around 95% of excess weight. He then proceeded to talk about this as if this were science.” It seems that Dr. Freedhoff has a lot of opinions he would like to share because he wrote a commentary piece for Medscape called “The Bell Tolls for the Diet Era.” Of course, no power on this earth will convince me to give it traffic so I’m not including a link. I’ve given you enough information to google it if you want and I’ll break it down here with commentary. Get full access to Weight and Healthcare at weightandhealthcare.substack.com/subscribe