New data shows obesity rising fastest among the young and the poor, while it’s mainly the better off who are seeing the benefit of weight-loss drugs.
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Orforglipron could help keep the weight off after people come off the expensive weight-loss jabs.
New weight loss jabs work brilliantly – but only while you’re taking them. The rebound is fast, and the cost-effectiveness unclear.
Millions are taking weight loss drugs like Wegovy. But what happens when you stop? Eggs might help fill the gap.
A banned weight-loss drug with dangerous cardiac side-effects is being marketed to young people as a natural supplement on social media.
Mounjaro leads to weight loss, which can help patients with sleep apnoea.
Doctors once prescribed overweight people extracts of animal glands – either eaten raw or dried in pill form or injected – to treat their supposedly ‘sluggish glands’.
Deadly pill DNP has claimed another young life.
There will always be people extolling the virtues of eating less and moving more for weight loss. But while this may work for overweight people or the newly obese, it’s woefully inadequate for most people…
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