Curious Reads: What does "skinny" cost?
ICYMI: Being Fat Isn't A Moral Failure, According to God
Hello friend, Liz here.
#1 Today’s “top of the fold” story is Ozempic—that is, the cultural phenomenon of a diabetes drug that, taken off-label, causes dramatic weight loss.
“It is hard to recall the last time a drug so excited the general public. Fen-phen in the 1990s, maybe? Viagra or Botox in the 2000s?”
Read “Ozempic Can’t Fix What Our Culture Has Broken” by Tressie McMillan Cottom for the New York Times.
Here are the highlights:
Now there are pills to make you skinny.
Pharmaceutical companies have discovered the magic compounds that help us lose weight with no hard work required. (Theoretically—more on that to come.)
And the gold rush toward owning the market on the obesity fix has begun because consumers cannot snatch up the products fast enough. The popularity is hardly on the same scale as past trendy meds (Was Viagra like this? wonders the author of the article.)
The reason for the popularity is easy enough to explain:
These drugs are blockbusters b…
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