Excellent NYT piece about shaming people to take Ozempic, etc for weight loss

[Anonymous]

It’s like the reporter reads DCUM or something.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/health/obesity-drugs-wegovy-ozempic.html

Main takeaway is that the people who behave this way are generally pissed they can no longer feel superior to those who shed pounds.

[Anonymous]

DCUM is full of anti fat bigots. They can just stay mad.

[Anonymous]

Yes, some people are furious at the discovery that they aren’t thin because of their moral superiority. It is a blow to their sense of self.

[Anonymous]

How on earth would I know unless they told me? And if they did, it meant we were close enough that I would probably feel sympathy for their struggle and joy over a solution.

I have 15lbs to lose and they're not going away. So I don't judge people who need drugs to lose weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, some people are furious at the discovery that they aren’t thin because of their moral superiority. It is a blow to their sense of self.

They still haven’t truly accepted this. The drugs work by reducing disproportionate hunger that thinner people do not have. But they really believe it’s doing something else as some sort of cheat code.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCUM is full of anti fat bigots. They can just stay mad.

Lol this x 100. Let them be mad

[Anonymous]

We will remain a deeply troubled society as long as we deny science and assert that ‘willpower’ and ‘character’ are actual things that are stronger than intricately evolved hormones functioning in a biological being.

Nova on PBS just did a couple of episodes on neuroscience called Your Brain. They are designed for non scientists to grasp and reveal the complexities of the human brain and the reality that so much of what we think we are is just not true.

The obesity epidemic is a biological response to a broken food system that is entirely predictable given what we already know about how the human body works, including the brain and gut. Thin people are accidents of genetics and quite often not healthy - weight is not determinative of health, all the research bears that out.

Folks here who settle on an attitude of superiority because they haven’t fallen victim to the obesity epidemic are just proving how ignorant they are of science and when they argue at the science they just prove that they are willfully ignorant which is about the worst ‘character’ a person can develop in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, some people are furious at the discovery that they aren’t thin because of their moral superiority. It is a blow to their sense of self.

Agree! I didn’t read the article but I am thrilled for all the people getting skinny from taking Ozempic! It brings me joy that naturally thin people are irritated over this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, some people are furious at the discovery that they aren’t thin because of their moral superiority. It is a blow to their sense of self.

Agree! I didn’t read the article but I am thrilled for all the people getting skinny from taking Ozempic! It brings me joy that naturally thin people are irritated over this.

I'm not irritated by it at all! On the contrary, good for whomever takes these meds and loses weight and then gets healthy. It's a huge burden taken off of our already broken and expensive healthcare system.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like Ozempic sucks the joy from life?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12194443/Ozempic-makes-life-miserably-boring-people-quit-two-years-scientist-says.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like Ozempic sucks the joy from life?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12194443/Ozempic-makes-life-miserably-boring-people-quit-two-years-scientist-says.html

That certainly is interesting. My neighbor takes it and still seems to enjoy food, just not as much in quantity as before. I'll have to ask her about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, some people are furious at the discovery that they aren’t thin because of their moral superiority. It is a blow to their sense of self.

Agree! I didn’t read the article but I am thrilled for all the people getting skinny from taking Ozempic! It brings me joy that naturally thin people are irritated over this.

I'm not irritated by it at all! On the contrary, good for whomever takes these meds and loses weight and then gets healthy. It's a huge burden taken off of our already broken and expensive healthcare system.

Well, I’m glad people can avoid heath care complications associated with obesity for their own sake of quality of life. But let’s not pretend putting all the overweight people on a drug that costs $1000/month that they need to take the rest of their life is somehow cutting healthcare cost

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, some people are furious at the discovery that they aren’t thin because of their moral superiority. It is a blow to their sense of self.

Agree! I didn’t read the article but I am thrilled for all the people getting skinny from taking Ozempic! It brings me joy that naturally thin people are irritated over this.

I'm not irritated by it at all! On the contrary, good for whomever takes these meds and loses weight and then gets healthy. It's a huge burden taken off of our already broken and expensive healthcare system.

Well, I’m glad people can avoid heath care complications associated with obesity for their own sake of quality of life. But let’s not pretend putting all the overweight people on a drug that costs $1000/month that they need to take the rest of their life is somehow cutting healthcare cost

Don't know who is paying $1K a month but my step daughter has hers completely covered, she's with Kaiser. She however actually needs to lose about 60lbs, so maybe it's all in how the doctor justifies the need? There are a lot of people on this class of medications, with the vast vast majority not being able to afford the $1K a month you're talking about, or even $100 a month.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, some people are furious at the discovery that they aren’t thin because of their moral superiority. It is a blow to their sense of self.

Agree! I didn’t read the article but I am thrilled for all the people getting skinny from taking Ozempic! It brings me joy that naturally thin people are irritated over this.

I'm not irritated by it at all! On the contrary, good for whomever takes these meds and loses weight and then gets healthy. It's a huge burden taken off of our already broken and expensive healthcare system.

Well, I’m glad people can avoid heath care complications associated with obesity for their own sake of quality of life. But let’s not pretend putting all the overweight people on a drug that costs $1000/month that they need to take the rest of their life is somehow cutting healthcare cost

Drug prices go down when the patient base gets bigger, and generic versions of drugs cost less but aren't developed unless there is a sufficient patient base.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How on earth would I know unless they told me? And if they did, it meant we were close enough that I would probably feel sympathy for their struggle and joy over a solution.

I have 15lbs to lose and they're not going away. So I don't judge people who need drugs to lose weight.

Puleeeaaassseee

People are always making comments about "how" people lose weight.

It happened when people were getting their stomach's banded and now with Ozempic, you don't actually have to know.