As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back
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Re: As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back
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#3> I asked Nicole Avena, a professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai who studies sugar addiction, if she believed it could be possible for food companies to engineer, intentionally or not, compounds that would make GLP-1 drugs less effective. Avena told me it was plausible.
Never really thought about this before. The food industry is a virus and current weight loss drugs are the best vaccine we have, but it'll forever be an arms race.
Re: As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back
#4> I asked Nicole Avena, a professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai who studies sugar addiction, if she believed it could be possible for food companies to engineer, intentionally or not, compounds that would make GLP-1 drugs less effective. Avena told me it was plausible. Never really thought about this before. The food industry is a virus and current weight loss drugs are the best vaccine we have, but it'll forever…
It would probably be ridiculously illegal to put substances in products that are designed to counter the function of prescription medication.
It's the kind of thing that I hope would result in not only massive fines for the corporations but jail time for the people involved in the decision making and the R&D.
Re: As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back
#5> I asked Nicole Avena, a professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai who studies sugar addiction, if she believed it could be possible for food companies to engineer, intentionally or not, compounds that would make GLP-1 drugs less effective. Avena told me it was plausible. Never really thought about this before. The food industry is a virus and current weight loss drugs are the best vaccine we have, but it'll forever…
It would probably be ridiculously illegal to put substances in products that are designed to counter the function of prescription medication. It's the kind of thing that I hope would result in not only massive fines for the corporations but jail time for the people involved in the decision making and the R&D.
The US is about enter an era of no government regulation...
Re: As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back
#6> I asked Nicole Avena, a professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai who studies sugar addiction, if she believed it could be possible for food companies to engineer, intentionally or not, compounds that would make GLP-1 drugs less effective. Avena told me it was plausible. Never really thought about this before. The food industry is a virus and current weight loss drugs are the best vaccine we have, but it'll forever…
It would probably be ridiculously illegal to put substances in products that are designed to counter the function of prescription medication. It's the kind of thing that I hope would result in not only massive fines for the corporations but jail time for the people involved in the decision making and the R&D.
I think we can consider ourselves lucky if government(s) act quickly to prohibit things before they cause too much damage. I'd love to live in a world where these sorts of people are held accountable but unfortunately we weren't born in the right timeline to experience that.
Re: As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back
#7> I asked Nicole Avena, a professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai who studies sugar addiction, if she believed it could be possible for food companies to engineer, intentionally or not, compounds that would make GLP-1 drugs less effective. Avena told me it was plausible. Never really thought about this before. The food industry is a virus and current weight loss drugs are the best vaccine we have, but it'll forever…
It would probably be ridiculously illegal to put substances in products that are designed to counter the function of prescription medication. It's the kind of thing that I hope would result in not only massive fines for the corporations but jail time for the people involved in the decision making and the R&D.
They already put substances in food to make us crave them more. It's not a huge leap from there.
Re: As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back
#8> I asked Nicole Avena, a professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai who studies sugar addiction, if she believed it could be possible for food companies to engineer, intentionally or not, compounds that would make GLP-1 drugs less effective. Avena told me it was plausible. Never really thought about this before. The food industry is a virus and current weight loss drugs are the best vaccine we have, but it'll forever…
It would probably be ridiculously illegal to put substances in products that are designed to counter the function of prescription medication. It's the kind of thing that I hope would result in not only massive fines for the corporations but jail time for the people involved in the decision making and the R&D.
They don't need to be designed to do that. Companies don't really understand why things sell. They have a lot of ideas about what makes a successful product that are generally accurate. But at the end of the day, they just try stuff, see what sells, then do more of that.
If a sizeable portion of the market is on Ozempic, then this will naturally lead to there being a portion of the market that sells well to those people. At that will likely happen a decade before any human understands the mechanics by which that food sells well to people on Ozempic.
Re: As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back
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It would probably be ridiculously illegal to put substances in products that are designed to counter the function of prescription medication. It's the kind of thing that I hope would result in not only massive fines for the corporations but jail time for the people involved in the decision making and the R&D.
They already put substances in food to make us crave them more. It's not a huge leap from there.
It is a huge leap from the status quo to intentionally disrupting the effects of prescription drugs.
One is unscrupulous and the other is blatantly illegal.
Re: As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back
#10> I asked Nicole Avena, a professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai who studies sugar addiction, if she believed it could be possible for food companies to engineer, intentionally or not, compounds that would make GLP-1 drugs less effective. Avena told me it was plausible. Never really thought about this before. The food industry is a virus and current weight loss drugs are the best vaccine we have, but it'll forever…
It would probably be ridiculously illegal to put substances in products that are designed to counter the function of prescription medication. It's the kind of thing that I hope would result in not only massive fines for the corporations but jail time for the people involved in the decision making and the R&D.
Coca Cola has phosphoric acid in it so you don't puke from the fact that it contains unnatural amounts of sugar.
Sugar itself, in its processed form, is quite unnatural and causes cravings and addiction.
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn't get much sugar aside from fructose.
Conclusion: sugar is mostly used by the industry because it's addictive.