TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Oct. 23 -- Florida State University issued the following news release:
Florida State University's Institute for Connecting Nutrition and Health (ICON-Health) marked its first anniversary Oct. 20 with a symposium exploring how poor diet drives chronic disease and how lifestyle medicine and GLP-1 are changing treatments and even food choices in our society.
Nearly three in four U.S. adults are overweight or have obesity, and an estimated 11% of U.S. adults - about 40 million - now take a GLP-1 medication for weight loss, nearly four times the number in 2024. The "Blurry Lines: When Does Nutrition Become Medicine?" symposium, part of FSU's Discovery Days, took a hard look at this issue.
The forces shaping how we eat are c...