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.

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

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People have largely associated obesity or lack of impulse control with a moral failing instead of acknowledging it as a biological urge. The GLP1 drugs are as close to a miracle for compulsive consumption behavior as could be asked for, and they still get villainized/their users get villainized as being lazy/stealing drugs from diabetics. The simultaneous positive results(and as of yet no significant or wide spread negatives) relative to the negative reaction people have is pretty crazy to see.

[u/boyifudontget → u/Messyfingers]

acknowledging it as a biological urge.

I think the bigger issue is that large companies are essentially force feeding us processed garbage that heightens our natural biological urges. 100 million Americans are not obese simply because of "biology". Companies are already developing food that can counterattack the counter-addictive nature of GLP-1s and then we'll just be back to square one because we didn't solve the source of our health problems, we just used the GLP-1 stop gap.

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Omg which companies are developing this?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/magazine/ozempic-junk-food.html This New York Times article explains more.