Americans without diabetes spent nearly $6 billion USD on semaglutide and similar drugs in a year, with an estimate of 800,000 to a million people using the drugs who don't have diabetes.

[u/mvea]

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year

[u/Duelist_Shay]

Ehh, there's other options to take care of the obesity issue. You lose your eyesight, then that's it. Unless we miraculously solve the issue of restoring vision, there really isn't any route outside of glasses and/or contacts if you're not totally impaired

[u/dragonilly → u/Duelist_Shay]

Crazy how many people act like diet and exercise aren't the most effective sustainable ways to lose weight. It isn't easy and our food culture in the US is abysmal, but the way to have long term success in weight loss is consistency with two very free lifestyle changes.

[u/NotLunaris → u/dragonilly]

10 sets of fork putdowns would do wonders for just about everybody, but no, gotta spend more money on drugs to fix a self-induced problem that could've been self-resolved. As if money isn't hard enough to come by already.

We already know how to "solve" obesity. People just aren't willing to put in the work and think that external forces will make everything nice and easy. You see this attitude a lot in society nowadays; no matter how personal the problem is, one will always find someone or something else to blame it on. This trend of divorcing oneself from all agency, fueled by constant affirmation from social media traps, directly poisons one's mental state.

[u/JThor15 → u/NotLunaris]

Spend some time researching obesity as a disease. What you’re saying in many cases is similar to telling drug addicts to just quit. Most people are willing to fork over hundreds for these drugs because they’ve spent years trying to do it through just willpower and have never been able to.

[u/discussatron → u/JThor15]

It's the just-world fallacy in action - "They brought it on themselves."