Obesity

NEJM Editorial Challenged

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 19th, 1998

As a physician known for speaking candidly about issues affecting the public health, Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General, is speaking out about a recent editorial on weight loss that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Together with some of the nation's leading public health specialists, Dr. Koop has answered this editorial with a hard-hitting response that calls the NEJM position "one that trivializes the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States:" obesity.

In a letter submitted to NEJM for publication in an upcoming issue, Dr. Koop and two noted authorities on obesity, JoAnn E. Manson, MD,...

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