The findings add to concerns that GLP-1s could take a bite out of the bottom lines of some of the biggest restaurant companies and packaged food makers.
It’s more than just eating less. The drugs change people’s relationship with food and it helps them control their impulses. This new class of weight loss drugs really are revolutionary.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
It’s more than just eating less. The drugs change people’s relationship with food and it helps them control their impulses. This new class of weight loss drugs really are revolutionary.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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