Obesity
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Ozempic: Reshaping Desire Since 2023 May 28, 2024
A DRUG INITIALLY approved for type 2 diabetes, and now widely used for weight loss, is forcing us to grapple with the age-old question of what it means to choose freely. Weight loss drugs that work by suppressing appetite are not new. Semaglutide, be...
Ozempic or Bust May 10, 2024
In the early spring of 2020, Barb Herrera taped a signed note to a wall of her bedroom in Orlando, Florida, just above her pillow. NOTICE TO EMS! it said. No Vent! No Intubation! She’d heard that hospitals were overflowing, and that doctors were bein...
Fat Positivity Is a Fantasy January 04, 2024
If societal mores are designed for the comfort and prosperity of human beings, they are also necessarily designed to restrict the movement of human bodies. Some of these constraints seem only fair, and even intuitive: don’t step on people’s toes, kee...
