America is a land of contradictions; while we're known as a nation that loves to eat, we also live within a culture that has long valued thinness as the utmost beauty standard.Over the last several years the body positivity movement has pushed back on that notion. But then came a new class of weight-loss drugs.
America is a land of contradictions; while we're known as a nation that loves to eat, we also live within a culture that has long valued thinness as the utmost beauty standard.
Of course, a culture oriented around consumption doesn't necessarily align with that kind of body type, and for some people, tying self-worth to one's weight grew increasingly untenable as diet culture and media messaging leaned harder in one direction: be thin or be nothing at all. The drugs work by mimicking a hormone that increases satiety and decreases food intake. Though many of them were initially intended for diabetes patients, and can have some serious, and for good reason. Patients have reported losing weight easily and quickly, without having to make drastic lifestyle changes, or even exercise. Some have hailed it as a"miracle" drug.There is a lot of noise, particularly for women, around what it means to have a healthy body.
"I think that the celebrity obsession and our obsession with celebrities taking them has created an environment where we are not actually evaluating these drugs for their real value," Mukhopadhyay said in conversation with NPR's Juana Summers.
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