Hollywood's Latest Diet Craze? Ozempic, the Insulin Drug With Vanishing--Literally--Side Effects

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6. Southern California can be toxic

because there's pressure on every woman under 50 (and most over 50) to try to conform to the unhealthy standard. I know that from family there, which is one reason I got as far as NM and stopped when I finally left Boston. It never mattered whether I was thin or fat in Boston, it was always obscured by rolls of down outerwear. NM doesn't give a rip, either.

I would be very leery of this drug as a weight loss panacea. Like others, it might have some devastating rebound effects resulting in roller coaster insulin production and rapid weight gain once it is stopped. This sort of thing isn't generally known until a drug is approved for the general population. That's when the deficits show up, the things the original studies weren't set up to evaluate.

Most weight loss programs, whether diet and exercise, weight loss surgery, or an endless treadmill of fad dieting, do not work long term, the majority gaining most of the weight back within 5 years of achieving their goal weight.