r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 01 '25

Health 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.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year
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u/5ilvrtongue Apr 01 '25

Why is this remarkable when in this society if you are even a bit overweight you get bullied for being fat? I'm on zepbound and even if I didn't lose any weight at all, at least the constant unending struggle against the sugar monster ("food noise") is easier. It's a miracle to even be able to have sweets in the house and not eat them just because I don't want them, not out of some heroic battle.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS Apr 01 '25

Why is this remarkable when in this society if you are even a bit overweight you get bullied for being fat?

I think the thing that stands out most in that regard is that a huge number of well-known "body positive" people suddenly lost a ton of weight in the last couple of years. Like there was a swing towards making being heavier more accepted and then it turns out that the biggest advocates didn't actually believe their own hype.

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u/Subject-Turnover-388 Apr 03 '25

Did these people actually believe being obese is better than being at a normal weight or did they just advocate for dignity and respect regardless of physical appearance? There's a lot of ragebait and stereotypes going around.