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Re: Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands

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Post by makeitdouble » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 8:50 AM UTC

xenospn wrote: post #187

makeitdouble wrote: post #119

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> extremely dangerous I wish I could just quip a "citation needed", but we're at a point where the visceral hate for fat includes researchers spitting out feel good papers going with the flow, as funding is basically guaranteed. We don't have satanists, so this has become our day's moral panic IMHO: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6885862/

Are you suggesting obesity is not harmful?

Obesity is correlated to potentially harmful issues. That's a difference that matters when people reverse the goals and the means, reducing obesity often doesn't equate to solving the related issues.

Re: Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands

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Post by fragmede » Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 9:01 AM UTC

bamboozled wrote: post #188

fragmede wrote: post #181

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Giving up alcohol is huge though

Yeah, I just meant that they've done both, Ozempic and Alcohol, it was a noticable change after giving up the alcohol, awesome weight loss, the Ozempic hasn't changed a lot.

the belief is that the ozempic is what's allows the giving up of alcohol

Re: Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands

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Post by dpig_ » Thu, May 02, 2024, 1:48 AM UTC

aleksiy123 wrote: post #46

odiroot wrote: post #38

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If they invent something like this but for procrastination, they'd get a Nobel prize.

Adderall and Vyvanse?

Anecdotally, those don't cure procrastination. They mostly cure issues with consistency and throughput once the task has begun. Starting the task is still the same hill to climb as it was before.

Re: Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands

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Post by PierceJoy » Thu, May 02, 2024, 11:41 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #78

PierceJoy wrote: post #51

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On the contrary, most weight loss doctors consider these drugs to be like statins. You take them for the rest of your life. The number of people who maintain healthy habits after stopping them is shockingly low.

> number of people who maintain healthy habits after stopping them is shockingly low Source?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35441470/