Ozempic and similar medications are highly in-demand and yet remain deeply controversial. Online conversations about them are often full of misinformation — and echo decades of flawed teachings on weight management. So what do we get wrong when we talk about this new wave of weight-loss medications? A lot, it turns out.
Business Insider Producer Elizabeth McCauley dives into the scientific literature and talks to experts to find out the truth.
If you want to check out the sources for this video, we made a reading list for you: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JGSiAPWBnVaHPnevwgi7EW-BkR12jAkIs2Rh4Kvxg84/edit?usp=sharing
00:00 – Intro
00:46 – “An Untested Drug”
03:11 – “Curing” Obesity
06:23 – Big Pharma
08:30 – Side Effects
13:54 – Copycat Drugs
17:50 – “The Easy Way Out”
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to cure obesity and to do fat loss… why not just stop eating all kind of carbs, starch, flour products, anything sweets including sweet fruits and honey…. and just eat fibers, protein, and fat…..???
BTW…. I did that (also with some food supplement for my pancreas) and it cure my diabetes (the highest was 498 mg/dl or 27 mmol/l) in just several weeks… now I can eat normal again without any medication..
remember… your body refuse to loose weight because those food (carbs, sweets etc) are keep piling the fat in your body…. so it is very logic to just stop consume them.
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why nobody talks about problem of getting weight? I cannot pass 120lb no matter howe much I ate or what I ate.
Look at any photo of a group of Americans from 1950, and you’ll see virtually no bigger/overweight people. Now the obesity rate is near 50% in some places. You cannot tell me that people are bigger now because of “gland issues”, etc. What did change? People are less physically active, portions are bigger, far more people have cars, fast food is everywhere. There are numerous other factors, like food deserts, people having less time to cook due to having to work more, pollution, etc. So yes, it’s complicated, but it’s also not.
Weight loss is NOT easy. That’s a fact. Anyone who says “just do XYZ” is wrong. That said, people tend to ascribe nothing to themselves. It isn’t “I shouldn’t eat 8 cookies a day”, it’s “no matter how many cookies I eat, I won’t lose weight” which simply isn’t true. I’m currently “carb cycling” to lose weight. On Mon/Wed/Fri I eat very few carbs. It SUCKS, but it is working, slowly. I don’t think it’s unfair to expect people to actually try actually difficult non-drug methods for an actually significant amount of time. But I’ve heard people say “sure, I eat a lot of sugar and I don’t like veggies, but I just can’t lose weight”. You don’t know you can’t lose weight because, if you’re eating lots of sugar every day, you haven’t actually tried losing weight. You do not get to eat half a box of cookies a day and lose weight, that’s not how it works. Now, if you’ve tried all of the methods, done the hard things, your diet is actually good, and you still can’t lose weight, then by all means, try this drug. But the fact that one is essentially committing to be on it forever should by itself be a deterrent to saying “I tried a diet for two months and it didn’t work so I’m taking this drug”.