They’re going to ban Ozempic for purely capitalist reasons aren’t they. I guess we’re about to see who is more powerful, the pharma industry or the agriculture industry. The agriculture industry is going to have allies in the entire fast food industry as well here so I have to imagine they’re going to be the winners
they’ll do it as a moral panic type thing. play up the side effects and shame fat people for not being able to eat less.
This would be really funny. I mean they let COVID spread rampantly for capitalist reasons so I don’t see why obesity curbs would be any different.
What a profoundly stupid country this is
Capitalism when people dealing with medical conditions:
This is bad for business
Also:
Why cure anything when you can milk insurance for treatments for whatever it is for the rest of someone’s life?
This has permeated the medical/pharmaceutical industry so much that it affects the way we conceive of disease. It’s most pronounced in mental health.
Someone please explain what ozempic is. Are we going to cringe at it 10 years from now like all the other diet stuff in the past?
Ozempic is the main reason Denmark isn’t currently in a recession. it’s made by Novo Nordisk, the biggest company in Denmark and also one of the biggest in Europe. It technically was developed as some type of diabetes medication and then was discovered to help people lose a LOT of weight very quickly.
These tricks will always be cringe because the science of weight loss already exists.
What do you mean by the science of weight loss?
Weight control is all about calories, to lose weight you have to enter a calorie deficit (consume more than your intake) to gain weight you have to enter a calorie superavit (consume less than your intake). Your daily calorie baseline can be measure and it varies on current weight/activities/metabolism/etc… No drug will save you from that.
yes and no, something like a powerful appetite suppressant would make it much easier to adhere to calorie deficit
Committing to eating whole foods instead of trash helps adhering to a calorie deficit, too. All that fiber and protein fills you up a lot more than sugar.
Food deserts, junk food addiction, high calorie low fiber foods being cheap and easy to acquire compared to cooking your own meals, etc etc. if being thin and healthy was easy, there wouldn’t be an obesity epidemic.
I don’t get why people always get so defensive about this topic on hexbear. Literally no one called it easy, the people you’re replying to simply said that the science is proven and that no drug is going to magically help you lose weight if you’re eating more calories than you’re burning
