re: Ozempic medication to lose weight

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People will do anything but actually diet and exercise to lose weight.

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If you believe that, and I'm not disagreeing with you, then you should wholeheartedly support the use of these drugs for weight loss. Unless you're fine with the ticking time-bomb that is the obesity rate in this country.

A whole lot of "people should" posts in this thread that seem more about farming upvotes in exchange for folksy wisdom like "move more, eat less" than actually addressing the problem of obesity.

Of course people should eat better/less and exercise more. Everyone knows this. But, there's how things should be, and how things actually are.

Most people don't make major lifestyle changes, and most people probably never will. Now what? We just keep dealing with increasing strain on the healthcare system as a society and bitching about fatties on message boards?

These drugs aren't perfect and might not check the blocks on your virtue checklist, but unlike a lot of the trite shite that's been posted here, they're providing tangible results.

Sure, there are side effects, but as long as they're less costly and common than obesity-related heart disease, cancers, and diabetes, I'd consider them a net positive.