Weight-loss drugs can be critical for people who need them, but the Oscars surely prompt us to ask: Do we all want to be thin?
The new class of weight-loss drugs – Ozempic being the most famous – has brought a different dimension to the Oscars red carpet. Scrolling through a photo gallery of stars and critiquing their appearance now inevitably involves a side-chat about whether the celebrity in question is on Ozempic.skinny or has she cheated her way there? It’s the inverse of the way society judges the overweight and obese.
Scientists and doctors have known for a long time that people carrying multiple extra kilos are very unlikely to lose and keep off significant amounts of weight through diet and exercise alone. The biology of overweight and obese people conspires against them, keeping them hungry while retarding their basal metabolic rate. This is why diets almost always fail, propping up a diet industry which depends upon its lack of success for its ongoing viability.
In the United States, about 100 million people, or 42 per cent of the adult population, are obese, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The motoring enthusiast and celebrity toff Jeremy Clarkson wrote a feature article last year about being on Ozempic. Likewise, the, wrote last year that “at least 50 per cent of the over-45s I know in London” were taking the weight-loss drugs, and most of them were men. This, Walden speculated, was because the men were the only ones who would admit to it.
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