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New drugs have the potential to change the way we think about obesity
- fortran77 4y agoIt doesn't, of course, stop obesity directly. It somehow removes these individuals uncontrollable self-destructive compulsion to overeat. From the article: > He took his first weekly injection in July, and says it was like “a switch was flipped overnight.” Food cravings disappeared. When watching skinny friends eat, he used to wonder, “How do you not eat that entire plate of cookies in front of you?” That all changed. “One cookie? Totally doable.” "Fat Activists" today deny the connection between overeating and obesity.