The Times is absolutely determined to shit all over the GLP-1 drugs. Sure, they're not for everyone, but they are absolute gamechangers for many, and I don't understand the relentless negativity about them
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🗣️ "Ozempic is ruining my social life (and I’m not taking it)"
@carlajenkins.bsky.social explores the awkwardness of dining with friends who no longer have an appetite
@carlajenkins.bsky.social explores the awkwardness of dining with friends who no longer have an appetite
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This is not necessarily an argument against the drugs.
Stick your false morality where the sun doesn’t shine, Tony Gallagher.
Incredibly common and not v healthy - GLP-1 receptor agonists give a gradual, sustainable weight loss that can be combined with good advice.
2 - They’re not necessarily hunger suppressants. They tend to work by slowing digestion and reducing blood sugar.
3 - people who complain it’s not natural should never take any “unnatural” antibiotics or medicines.
2. fine but means you eat less and at some point have to get back to normal
3. of course and I am not saying that but as per the article they are out in the wild now and largely unsupervised
*still dodgy
You can also only get it if you’re prescribed by a pharmacy or doctor so I question where they’re getting it from.
Genuinely life changing for some people who want/can use it and I think the vitriol against those who use it says more about the commenters than anything about the drugs themselves.
You have to exercise are you poor!
So no doubt they loathe medications that help those people, they can't claim its self-inflicted or laziness if there are medical treatments.
Both ideas are obviously bollocks, for a variety of reasons
Plus providing insulin to Scandinavia at cost.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/magazine/weight-loss-side-effects-sex-ozempic.html
Why would you want to go to pick at a ££££ meal
fuck.
off.
It's the myth that fat people are just lazy driving it most of the time.
Who now is going to buy their ‘dates wrapped in chocolate’ recipes which promise so much …
"That's cheating. Aspirin is only for treating heart conditions."
Bizarre, isn't it?
If these drugs can curtail some of that misery, that's absolutely great.
if you’re overweight you can sniff at other overweight people being too lazy to lose weight ‘properly’, - at least your overweightness is the ‘right sort’
It's a very very strange editorial angle for the once-but-no-longer "paper of record"
I just feel for the people who can’t afford them. I’m hoping for the Saxenda generics to become available soon.
it is annoying when people using them purely for cosmetic weight loss make it harder for diabetics to fill their prescriptions though
it hasn't yet been over for as long as it lasted though, so I am a bit sensitive still about how horrible it was to struggle for months on end to access these medications.
there are negative side effects associated with stopping abruptly though, so months of diabetics struggling and just not having access to prescription meds through the NHS while rich people apparently just bought them... that does leave a poor taste in my mouth.
As far as I know it's still not been licenced, weirdly.
Part injustice, part good ol' fashioned envy, and fat shaming.
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