Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.
A new study finds that popular weight loss drug #Ozempic "could be profitably produced for less than $5 a month, even as maker Novo Nordisk A/S charges almost $1,000 in the US..."
The company's combined 2023 sales of Ozempic and related product Wegovy topped $18 billion.
In today’s “yikes” file for food and nutrition research:
New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to #obesity and #diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like #autism, #alzheimers disease, anxiety, and #depression.
The story of the current generation of anti-obesity drugs from early failures with leptin & ghrelin told by one of its pioneers, Matthias Tschöp. A new podcast project, you can listen to "#Obesity is a brain disease" by scrolling down at the link below. https://www.pioneercampus.org
"Ozempic shows us why we cannot trust this corporate feminism: It is a feminism of aesthetics and individualism and commercial opportunism, not of political commitment. As soon as the cruel honesty of capitalism tells Mattel that it’s in their best interest to do so, they’ll leave feminist Barbie behind, the same way they abandoned the plus-size models and the body positive photoshoots."
Interesting analysis on Ozempic/Mounjaro as weight loss drugs and their economic impact.
If you don't want to change your eating habits and lifestyle, you're stuck on these meds forever. Long term risks aren't well understood for your health, but we know how they impact your wallet.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to improve the quality of our food supply and rework our dietary guidelines instead? 🤔
ICYMI: Isa Cueto's beautiful story from last week is about so much more than an obesity clinic for kids.
It's about changing the way adults and kids think and talk about weight and health, about the hard choices you make with $27 in your pocket, about being a parent, and about being a kid.
“Super Size Me” was a study in America’s #FastFood culture & its role in the country’s #economy & #health problems, including #obesity. He put on 25 pounds, had bouts of depression & was diagnosed w/liver ailments during a 30-day stretch of McDonald’s-only fare.
Dr. Seuss and the weight-loss drug craze - By Kurt Cobb, originally published by Resource Insights
May 12, 2024
"...The obesity epidemic is being driven by industrial chemicals known as endocrine disruptors in the environment that make their way into humans via the air, the water & the food supply... Many industrial chemicals mimic endocrine chemicals in the body thereby interfering with the body’s signaling system.
...We have a system that creates widespread obesity through chemical poisoning and then sells people weight-loss drugs to take off the excess weight. When the drugs are discontinued, the weight comes back.
...Ironically, these drugs work by interfering with the body’s appetite control system by making people feel less hungry and more full. This is the same system that endocrine disruptors interfere with in the opposite manner..."
Fragments of mitochondrial DNA in sperm that are carried into the egg during fertilization are evidently the epigenetic mechanism by which fathers' health affects their childrens' health--specifically, the propensity for obesity and diabetes later in life.
It’s Time to End the Tyranny of Ultra-Processed Food (www.wired.com)
Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.