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A miracle weight loss drug? Have we learnt nothing at all?


by Amanda Cassidy
18th Jun 2023

The desire to achieve thinness by any means necessary—amphetamines, cabbage soup, SlimFast, and now Oxempic, remains a sad central tenet of female socialisation, writes Amanda Cassidy

People have been pushing back against fat stigma since at least the nineteen-sixties. But our fixation on thinness has now been given a new holy grail, according to some. But it’s not without complications. Saggy faces, questionable bowel movements and dirty smelly burps. These are the fallouts some are reporting from being on diabetes drug Ozempic. Semaglutide, also known as brand names Wegovy and Ozempic, slows down the digestive system, reducing blood sugar and acting...

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