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People on weight loss drugs eat less? My god, what else will science discover?!
The worldwide impact of these new drugs could be kind of amazing. They don't just have you burn more calories or not digest food you eat. They completely change how people think about food. When obesity is an epidemic that causes all kinds of health problems, imagine how much less we'd spend on healthcare if more people were healthier weights.
It's an epidemic because of greedy corporations pushing shit food combined with our shit culture, overwork, and lack of exercise.
On top of this, what's medically considered overweight is a really flawed logic and weight can often be a comorbidity of other problems that get passed off by doctors as the person just being too fat. For example, according to the BMI, champion weightlifters are morbidly obese.
BMI classifying weightlifters as morbidly obese is a flaw of the BMI, not on how medics consider obesity. BMI is used because for most people it is really simple and quick and gives a reasonable result. When a doctor considers your health, they consider many many factors including your bloodwork, quantity and location of fat, fitness level and more
Yeah, but when an insurance company is looking to deny a claim, suddenly the nuance of all that goes out the window
Can't have that. Might hurt profits somewhere. A big insurance company here just removed one of the drugs from coverage inexplicably.
Makes you wonder why despite a doctor prescribing it for weight loss, the insurance company can go ahead and just, nope out. and what motivation do they have to keep people fat?
They don't want to pay out for expensive drugs. They can't be profitable if they pay for the healthcare your doctor prescribes for you.
A good friend of mine is on them. He physically gets sick if he overeats. He has event missed work because he was home vomiting. He learned fast to eat small amounts only. We used to have lunch about once a month. We have not gone out since he started on them.
And that's cool and all, but maybe it would be better to spend the time and money on providing better food options in the first place.
IDK if I'd call food rotting in your stomach because your body just isn't digesting it a revolution.
And the article calls it rare in the first sentence.
To the point that it gets rotten yes. But the entire purpose of the drug is to dramatically slow the digestion process which has a whole host of other problems, rotten food inside you is just the grossest.
Digestion itself is a rotting process using our gut bacteria
I think the lesson here is that all drugs have side effects and it's a question of whether the positive effect is worth the danger. If you are looking for the perfect pharmaceutical, it will never exist.
In this case, not science but an investment firm. Trying to figure out if they should cut investments in restaurants, groceries or both.
It is slightly interesting that people mostly seem to cut eating out and not groceries, rather than it being proportional. That being said, if I'm taking a weight loss drug I'm probably trying to eat at least a little healthier, which probably means less eating out.
They are also stupid expensive. If you're spending 1k a month on medicine, of course you're gonna eat out less.
That's the new dystopian plan for those who can't afford groceries. Take a pill!
My mom told me that when she was send away to a remote school where she lived with other teens they drenched cotton balls in orange juice and ate that to lose weight. That thought still haunts me.
What's crazy about that, you could just eat high fiber foods and get the same effect.
People did that because the cotton wouldn't be digested and make their stomachs feel full for a long time. Literally the same thing nondigestable fiber does.
What's actually crazy is most people today barely eat any fiber.
I guess that's one way to get your fiber.
73% of Americans are overweight. They'll be just fine if they eat out less.
As a lot of people here know, I am the last person to be saying this, but if it was possible to take a pill to avoid paying for groceries, it's probably worth it.
Just don't end up living on Ensure and V8 because it's just as expensive, trust me.
I used to think of eating and sleeping as wasting my productive time. Were I then able to take a pill to reclaim that time, I would have. I'm much lazier now. I like the new me.
Trust me, eating is one of the best things in the world. Maybe the best thing in the world if it's the right meal. Every culture is built around food.
I am very much in a position to know this.
Edit: I forgot my point, which was that even though it's great, if people could only do it when they wanted to instead of when they had to, they would probably make that choice.