The Obesity Debate: Weight Loss vs. Healthy Lifestyles

Addiction Economy thought for Today - Oh boy, here is medicine and obesity and the narrow mindedness of the 'biological model' of obesity in spades it seems to me.

You lose weight irrespective of what specific diet you follow and whether you exercise on these new drugs. If you eat a crap diet or a healthy diet you lost weight. Fair enough and unsurprising. But the Docs are debating whether to stop prescribing exercise and a healthy diet to patients taking it because it doesn't have any impact on whether or not you lose weight.

But the article doesn't mention at all anything other than losing weight. You can't take these forever as you continue to lose weight for ever as far as I understand from a friend who lost 3 stone on Wegovy. So when does being a healthy happy person with a healthy and empowering lifestyle come in? It's not in the article because it is only about losing weight.

So in the end, do you go back to your normal old foods and put it all back on like you do with normal old diets? I can't see how not if they are not going to be helping people understand that this will be any different. Same with Bariatic surgery for example.

This is a known known and what so may have been saying from the start. It would be very very dumb if the medical community was so obsessed with the losing of the weight that they forget the whole point is to help a person have a healthy and fulfilled life. Not going back to eating the crap and coming back 3 years later for the next batch of the pills and dying of something else because you are eating non-nutritious food which will kill you in other ways.

"For people with severe obesity today, even the modest benefits of dieting and exercise seem moot. Over the past few years, clinical trials of Ozempic and related drugs have shown that the “cornerstone” of treatment adds almost nothing to these medicines’ effects on people’s body weight.

Others say  'in fact, they free up patients “to focus on lifestyle intervention in a more refined way,” by clearing out cravings and tabling the need for counting calories. People on Ozempic, she said, and their doctors, too, can start to think about switching to a wholesome diet, being more active, getting more sleep. All of these interventions will be beneficial regardless of your weight.'

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