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Ozempic and the other class of new weight-loss drugs is upending how Americans live their lives as entire industries respond the the nation's shrinking waist-lines.The owners of Plus Bus Boutique, a Los Angeles consignment shop that buys and sells plus-size fashions, noticed something odd this past summer. “We’ve had an alarming amount of the larger sizes coming in,” says co-owner Marcy Guevara-Prete.
This type of marketing can be a minefield, especially if companies don’t want to run afoul of the Food and Drug Administration , says Lauren Handel, an attorney for food, beverage, and dietary supplement businesses. “The FDA considers products to be drugs if they are intended to alleviate side effects of drugs,” she says. Suggesting that a food or supplement could be used as part of a treatment program could be “risky,” Handel says.
And then there’s surgery. “I’ve seen a 30% jump in surgical body procedures over the past year due to GLP-1,” says New York plastic surgeon Dr. Darren Smith. It’s becoming its own field of cosmetic surgery, he says, called the “Mounjaro Makeover,” named for the GLP-1 brand and designed to help patients using weight loss drugs who’ve lost skin laxity in “aesthetically sensitive areas,” Smith says.The most problematic change, however, can’t be measured in profits.
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