Obesity is a major cause of long term health issues in the US and other developed countries.
63% on the highest dose achieved a 20% body weight reduction. If you imagine morbidly obese people weighing in at 300, 400 lbs, that's 60-80 lbs of weight loss.
It's not, we'll do everything but the right thing, tax the shit out of junk food or straight up ban them. Fix the root cause, not the symptom
When I see families at the supermarket checking out with nothing but candies and processed junk food I die a little bit inside, the veggies aisle is 1/10th of the supermarket, the candies aisle is twice as big, the biscuit aisle too, the purposefully put colorful candies and junk food packages at children eyes level near the cash registers, &c.
We're selling them the addiction and now we're attempting to sell them the cure, it's not fantastic, it's vile
Feel free to explain me how, as we've clearly been stuck in this for a good 50+ year, the food industry lobby are more powerful than our governments.
From sugar to processed food, carcinogenic additives, alcohol, tobacco, it's not a secret, it's very well documented...
Selling shit that shaves of decades of your life is an utopia, controlling them is "authoritarianism"... I'm glad I have the will power to not fall into that but clearly the vast majority of the population doesn't, what are we waiting for ? 100% obesity rate ? our lifestyles and especially our diets are an insult to nature
"my body my choice" they will say, ok then fuck off of the public healthcare system because I'm not financing your slow suicide
I think this is very much an "it depends" thing - a lot [not all] of "caused by obesity" issues are really caused by behaviour that also results in obesity - I think that would be comorbidity? but I am not a doctor :D
That said I agree that something like this, assuming results hold, no drawbacks, etc could be very valuable, if nothing else just for increasing quality of life. But I could see that losing an initial chunk of weight also helping on the road to exercise (if you are extremely overweight exercise may not be an option).
Obesity is a major cause of long term health issues in the US and other developed countries.
63% on the highest dose achieved a 20% body weight reduction. If you imagine morbidly obese people weighing in at 300, 400 lbs, that's 60-80 lbs of weight loss.