This board has been taken over by weight loss drug threads

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are lazy and vain.

How many marathons have YOU run? Because I promise you I’m not the only multiple marathon finisher who’s on these meds because I’m at risk for serious health problems.

Did you run those marathons, or primarily walk them?

The poster used the word run.

Reading is fundamental.

[Anonymous]

These drugs may be safe over long time periods. No one tells people on high blood pressure meds that they are on for years that they are an addict.

While the drugs may have some harmful side effects over many years, I’d suspect that all the over eating, junk food and obesity was worse for health!

If the drugs work long term this is great. Millennials in particular have a terrifyingly high rate of obesity at younger ages which will become a public health emergency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are lazy and vain.

How many marathons have YOU run? Because I promise you I’m not the only multiple marathon finisher who’s on these meds because I’m at risk for serious health problems.

Did you run those marathons, or primarily walk them?

The poster used the word run.

Reading is fundamental.

If you're running (as opposed to "running") marathons and are obese, you're eating way, way, way too much. And eating way too much of the wrong foods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anybody that has done any amount of work in the pharma space would realize the goal in life is to avoid big pharma. The drugs are great, but I’m not so sure saddling yourself with that addiction is worth it.

Weird, I have spent my whole career working in pharma and I think these drugs are on par with vaccines for meaningfully changing health outcomes at the population level. So I guess not “anybody.”

The goal would still be to avoid all these interventions in the first instance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Totally agree OP. They should all be in the 'beauty' forum, since they have nothing to do with diet or exercise.

The description of this forum is “about weight loss”. I asked Jeff to change it years ago and he said he would, but then didn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does it all mean?

It means that UMC, largely white women, are still obsessed with being thin, and particularly the idea that thinness is easily attainable for most of us.

I think semaglutides can be very helpful for people who suffer from obesity. That’s not most of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are lazy and vain.

How many marathons have YOU run? Because I promise you I’m not the only multiple marathon finisher who’s on these meds because I’m at risk for serious health problems.

Did you run those marathons, or primarily walk them?

The poster used the word run.

Reading is fundamental.

If you're running (as opposed to "running") marathons and are obese, you're eating way, way, way too much. And eating way too much of the wrong foods.

My mother died of cancer. She was emaciated from it. Just skin a bones by the end. Yet, she was still considered overweight by the stupid BMI method. Different people have different bodies that don’t necessarily conform.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are lazy and vain.

How many marathons have YOU run? Because I promise you I’m not the only multiple marathon finisher who’s on these meds because I’m at risk for serious health problems.

Did you run those marathons, or primarily walk them?

The poster used the word run.

Reading is fundamental.

If you're running (as opposed to "running") marathons and are obese, you're eating way, way, way too much. And eating way too much of the wrong foods.

Possibly, but marathon running can paradoxically make you very hungry and prevents weight loss for some people.

[Anonymous]

In some posts it means people think they have found a quick fix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anybody that has done any amount of work in the pharma space would realize the goal in life is to avoid big pharma. The drugs are great, but I’m not so sure saddling yourself with that addiction is worth it.

Weird, I have spent my whole career working in pharma and I think these drugs are on par with vaccines for meaningfully changing health outcomes at the population level. So I guess not “anybody.”

Your livelihood depends on believe that, or at least convincing people you believe that and they should believe it, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Totally agree OP. They should all be in the 'beauty' forum, since they have nothing to do with diet or exercise.

Good point. Counterpoint: these meds decrease appetite, which has everything to do with diet.

[Anonymous]

yeah and it's pretty sad really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Totally agree OP. They should all be in the 'beauty' forum, since they have nothing to do with diet or exercise.

You don’t lose weight on the meds without also paying attention to diet and exercise. There are people for whom the meds aren’t effective because they don’t change their diet.

[Anonymous]

because it is the wave of the future. Give it five years and I'll bet the drugs are easily available OTC and cheap and a significant portion of the population will be taking them.

[Anonymous]

It means that people are lazy. Especially Americans.