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.
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?
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.
I think the lesson here is that all drugs have side effects and it’s a question of whether the positive effect is worth the danger. If you are looking for the perfect pharmaceutical, it will never exist.
In this case, not science but an investment firm. Trying to figure out if they should cut investments in restaurants, groceries or both.
It is slightly interesting that people mostly seem to cut eating out and not groceries, rather than it being proportional. That being said, if I’m taking a weight loss drug I’m probably trying to eat at least a little healthier, which probably means less eating out.
As a lot of people here know, I am the last person to be saying this, but if it was possible to take a pill to avoid paying for groceries, it’s probably worth it.
Just don’t end up living on Ensure and V8 because it’s just as expensive, trust me.
People on weight loss drugs eat less? My god, what else will science discover?!
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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.
It’s an epidemic because of greedy corporations pushing shit food combined with our shit culture, overwork, and lack of exercise.
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.
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.
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.
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
I think the lesson here is that all drugs have side effects and it’s a question of whether the positive effect is worth the danger. If you are looking for the perfect pharmaceutical, it will never exist.
In this case, not science but an investment firm. Trying to figure out if they should cut investments in restaurants, groceries or both.
It is slightly interesting that people mostly seem to cut eating out and not groceries, rather than it being proportional. That being said, if I’m taking a weight loss drug I’m probably trying to eat at least a little healthier, which probably means less eating out.
They are also stupid expensive. If you’re spending 1k a month on medicine, of course you’re gonna eat out less.
That’s the new dystopian plan for those who can’t afford groceries. Take a pill!
73% of Americans are overweight. They’ll be just fine if they eat out less.
As a lot of people here know, I am the last person to be saying this, but if it was possible to take a pill to avoid paying for groceries, it’s probably worth it.
Just don’t end up living on Ensure and V8 because it’s just as expensive, trust me.