Ministers are lauding the new generation of weight-loss drugs - but are they really the solution?
Given as regular injections, the treatments – Wegovy and Mounjaro – mimic a hormone that makes people less hungry.
Promoting healthy lifestyles, improving food labelling, restricting advertising and taking steps to increase the cost of unhealthy foods, such as the sugar tax, have all been tried - but rates of obesity have continued to rise and one in three adults is now obese. under the supervision of specialist weight-loss programmes, access to which is, like many NHS services, constrained
And how that can be achieved remains to be seen - as patients still need to follow a structured programme of diet and exercise alongside the treatment.
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