
Doctors Said I Should Just Lose Some Weight. Now I Only Have Months to Live
By Alyce Collins and Jodi Bremner0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.As night fell on the chilly October evening, my family and I prepared to celebrate another Halloween together. As expected, the house was adorned with pumpkins, orange and black décor, and suitably spooky ornaments.“Here’s to the beginning of another holiday season together!”But as I sipped my drink, it just didn’t feel like it was sitting well with me. It was incredibly odd, as though my body didn’t agree with alcohol all of a sudden.
- ▪By Alyce Collins and Jodi Bremner0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.As night fell on the chilly October eveni
- ▪As expected, the house was adorned with pumpkins, orange and black décor, and suitably spooky ornaments.“Here’s to the beginning of another holiday season together!”But as I sipped my drink, it just didn’t feel like it was sitting well with
- ▪It was incredibly odd, as though my body didn’t agree with alcohol all of a sudden.
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| Original publisher | Newsweek |
| Canonical URL | https://www.newsweek.com/doctors-said-i-should-just-lose-some-weight-now-i-only-have-months-to-live-12513550 |
| Publication time | Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-03T14:01:12.809Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-03T14:01:12.809Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 47jVeqnO6ld0 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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By Alyce Collins and Jodi Bremner0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.As night fell on the chilly October evening, my family and I prepared to celebrate another Halloween together. As expected, the house was adorned with pumpkins, orange and black décor, and suitably spooky ornaments.“Here’s to the beginning of another holiday season together!”But as I sipped my drink, it just didn’t feel like it was sitting well with me. It was incredibly odd, as though my body didn’t agree with alcohol all of a sudden.
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