The toxic debate about obesity rages on. But at least we know if Mounjaro or Wegovy is better for weight loss | Zoe Williams

WHY you may get a “best” weight loss “, Ran”, Ran I coverage me From the most recent Research results: Mounjaro is more formally effective than Wigofi. There are many reasonable reasons. Wegov, which produces the average weight loss, may suit you well, well. It is the only approved drug to reduce the risk of the main cardiovascular event because it was on the market for a longer period. Mountrao may end, which reduces weight by 20 %, in the long run. The media often takes the tone of a scandal around drug innovation: whether NHS is trying to give up you in second place, or by selling large medications, someone always comes out. “This looks good; let’s see how things go,” a very difficult editing line.

I was part of the discussion episode last week in “Ozimbi Nation”Part of the food season in the British Library. OzemPIC is the same drug as Wegovy, only with less concentration than the active ingredient, semaglutide, and is used to treat type 2 diabetes. I felt a little contradiction to include it in the “food season”, because OzemPIC is the opposite of food, fighting food, and the medicine that makes you make you forget what you liked in food. However, the debate – which was basically “Is this a wonder or adherent plaster?” – Cut into the heart of what the food means to politics, for politics, and I think that if you distort it, for civilization.

The issue that indicates that Dolglotide is a wonder medicine, Dr. Tony Goldston, a pioneering endocrinologist, and an expert in destructive behavior and obesity. His point of view was that the bodies are the luck of clouds: there is no moral element of obesity, and there is no solution to “get a fist on yourself.” If you are skinny, it is because you won the genetic lottery, and if you are struggling with obesity, then you did not. A drug that reduces your weight Up to 25 % It is a miracle. Although he also said: “It is not magic – it’s biology!” Which tickled me because biology He is Magic, to an ordinary person).

Goldston enthusiastically talked about his patients: He saw that people die because of obesity complications in their twenties. He has no time at all for any question in the terrain of obesity: “What is the best and fastest way to help the largest possible number of people?”

He was incredibly convincing-as well as Professor Christina Vogel, who was looking at the broader determinants of the diet, and was raising the other situation: that if you managed to create a secret environment, through a mixture of economic inequality and weak food, foods of high quality, which are highly produced, and defending the interest of companies in a strong way, and you do not create. Her research takes quantitative data on supermarkets and rotational stores, as well as the qualitative concentration set with people trying to put food on the table. I talked strongly about the absolute impossibility, at a low income, to feed a decent and balanced family.

So, while, on paper, Goldstone and Vogel were on my side against, they were professionally committed to making people’s lives worse, and therefore, on the same side.

In this crucible of experience, I was dropped to explain the media position on weight loss medications. The more you try, the more shy. obesity It is published in the general analysis to explain a large group of incurable problems; That is why we cannot bear the expenses of NHS, it is evidence that we are a nation in a decline, and for this reason social care continues in the long grass. It is used in conjunction with aging often so that it looks almost one word, obesity. But aging is inevitable, and obesity is not. Although it is no longer acceptable for individuals who hint the body, it is still permitted to say-it is clear, even-that obesity is the individual’s mistake. In a blow, all the assumptions, duties and pledges that entered into the creation of the social safety network are canceled: if obesity is the main threat to a healthy society, and its reason is the individuals who fail to take responsibility for themselves, so how can we expect to assume the responsibility of each other?

There were always people who argue strongly that weight gain is created by the economy, by agriculture, by the industry, by the regimes-but none of them hindered the tyrant who is heading towards the post-post-functional reality, after the welfare. Effective weight loss medications, however-they will really get sand in the gears. Remove obesity and we have no way to blame, police or judge each other, and we will return to the first box, beverge or bust. What I personally will be fine.

Zoe Williams is a guardian writer

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