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Diab*sity: The Weight Loss Industry's Favourite Couple
The Fat Doctor Podcast
The Fat Doctor Podcast
Diab*sity: The Weight Loss Industry's Favourite Couple
Apr 29, 2026
Season 6
Episode 16
Dr Asher Larmie
The marriage between diabetes and ob*sity is nothing more than a PR stunt dressed up as medicine — and it's been running for 25 years. In this episode, I expose how the pharmaceutical industry invented a fictional condition called prediabetes to create a market of 115 million Americans, and then quietly funded the guidelines that put weight loss at the top of the treatment agenda. This one's personal: I have diabetes and I'm done carrying the shame they built for us.
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