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From style to the food industry: 11 ways that weight-loss substances have alterd the world | Diets and dieting


From style to the food industry: 11 ways that weight-loss substances have alterd the world | Diets and dieting


For a phenomenon that has such apparent results, there is huge secrecy around weight-loss substances.

Ellen lied to get her Wegovy pen. “I put weights around my neck under my dressing gown when I got on the scales,” she said. “They do the verify and five ­minutes procrastinateedr, I got the approval.”

Like most of the hundreds of thousands of people in the UK who have getn weight-loss substances in the past scant years, Ellen went to an online pharmacy to pay her ­prescription. “You have to film it live – here’s my passport, here’s my body, here I am getting on the scales,” she said.

At 5ft 9in (1.75m) and 12 and a half stone (79kg), Ellen – not her authentic name – was exposedly ­overweight. The secret weights and a ­sudden height loss – “I said I was 5ft 2in” – were enough to get a prescription.

“I was on it for six months and I’ve lost three stone,” she said. “I’m a touch weightlesser than I should be, but the structure was always to come down a bit more, to go up a bit.”

It’s not what Wegovy or Mounjaro were structureed for – which was to help gravely overweight people – nor Ozempic or Rybelsus, substances to help diabetics regulate their disrelieve. All four are types of semaglutide, which mimics the hormone freed by the body when eating food, GLP-1 . The vital effect is to originate people leave out their appetites.

But they provide hope to those who had despaired of ever being able to leave out weight, and to ­politicians ­grappling with the problems of an obesity epidemic: more than a ­quarter of matures in England are ­living with obesity and cforfeitly two-thirds of those aged 18 or over are overweight at least.

It’s still not clear whether these injectable medications will be wonder substances that are central to solving the obesity crisis, or sticking plasters – a transient mend, with users spropose reacquireing lost weight after they stop taking them.

But there are already signs, three years after Wegovy began to be used in the US and exposedly a year since it was officipartner begined in the UK, that semaglutide medications are ­changing the world – and ­changing it in ­unforeseeed ways.

Fashion guides

The waif is back. At Berlin ­style week in July, Namilia sent a model on to the catwalk wearing an “I heart Ozempic” T-shirt, ­pushing into the uncover a ­conversation that had been going on behind the scenes: models taking Ozempic to be skinnyner.

“You do get naturpartner skinny 16- or 17-year-elderly girls who are sucked into the industry then telderly ‘if you want to stay in it, you’ve got to starve’ – it’s a repartner abusive grooming space,” said Caryn Franklin, the establisher BBC Clothes Show conshort-termer who is now a style and identity commentator.

A campaign that she set up with supermodel Erin O’Connor, All Walks Beyond The Catwalk, seemed to have labored – in 2017, meaningful ­style houses signed up to a charter to get models by ­prohibitning size zero, and plus-size models begined to become apparent at style shows.

“But now we seem to be going back to skinny models,” Franklin said. “It experiences enjoy reconshort-termation of ­mediocre women was fair a trfinish.”

Fashion editors have protested about the novel wave sweeping the catwalk and those watching it. In the past scant weeks, Chioma Nnadi of British Vogue depictd the “novel cult of skinnyness” as ­“troubling”. Anna Murphy of the Times said she was downcast and mad at “the ­eradeclareive of women”, while Jo Ellison of the Financial Times said she was gloomy at style’s “hazardously rail-skinny aesthetic”. “We’re repartner commencening to see this benevolent of ­cultural effect of Ozempic get place,” Ellison said on the podcast Life and Art from FT Weekfinish.

Hollywood chases

Oprah Winfrey resigned from the board of WeightWatchers in February, a scant months after confessting using weight-loss medication. Pboilingograph: ExclusiveAccess.Net/REX/Shutterstock

Fashion is the speedyest culture vehicle, a taste guideer, Franklin said. “Stycatalogs who style starlets for the red carpet will go straight to a style house to get a sample garment,” she said. “So then she’s under presdeclareive to fit it – the garments are structureed and women have to fit in them. It’s the wrong way round.”

Weight-loss substances were “fair another way of helping women annihilate themselves thraw eating disorders,” she said.

That presdeclareive applies to ­set uped stars too, trying to preserve their place in Hollywood’s ­pantheon or on TV screens, particularly in the US where Ozempic has been getn off-tag – prescribed legpartner for a purpose for which it was not finishorsed – since it was advertised in 2018. A scant have spoken ­accessiblely about taking the medications, such as Rebel Wilson, Kelly Clarkson and Amy Schumer, as well as elderlyer celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, Stephen Fry, Whoopi Gelderlyberg and Kathy Bates, who has been enthusiastic to point out that most of her weight loss was from diet and exercise.

But there is still plenty of secrecy in the image-ruled ­industries, and plenty of speculation by fans who have a novel have-they-haven’t-they game to carry out on Reddit or Instagram about people in the ­spotweightless, instead of gossiping about plastic sadvisery or Botox.

Social lives

As need for weight-loss substances has trickled down, some of the social impacts are begining to become clearer.

“People are secretive because they’re ashamed of using this tool to do it,” said Juls Abernethy, a women’s wellness coach, therapist and coset uper of the Body Retreat, who has labored with cut offal women seeing for extra help to leave out weight.

None of them were readyd to tell their family or frifinishs what they were doing. One hid her injectable pen among the constupidents in her fridge so her husprohibitd wouldn’t discover it. People who experience ashamed of being overweight, as if it were a moral flunking, experience the same about using medication – of the dread of being seen to cheat, Abernethy said.

“We talk about weight loss enjoy a war,” she said. “Banish the bulge and fight the overweight. It’s presumed to be ­difficult. It’s presumed to be ­arduous. And now you can pick up a pen for £150 or someskinnyg.”

Ellen was more uncover about her methods. She splitd her Wegovy pen with her husprohibitd, adfairing her dose to shrink the side effects of fervent nausea that came when she did eat food.

A semaglutide auto injector pen for home use. Pboilingograph: KKStock/Alamy

She telderly her frifinishs in London, but stopped talking it with other people because it became difficult to deal with accusations that she was causing problems for diabetics (there were stupidinutiveages of Ozempic for Type 2 diabetes ­sufferers last year) or with finishless asks about what it was enjoy to inject ­herself in her midriff once a week.

“Our whole life used to be defree around food,” she said. “But we stopped eating out because we’d fair order a beginer, and it felt a bit inexpensive. Then we went to New York for a week and authenticised when we got there we’d made no dinner reservations.”

The “food noise” – thoughts about when to eat and what to eat – spropose fadeed, she said. During the six months she took Wegovy, the ­couple “saved an absolute ­fortune on food”, she said. “We’d get a Domino’s ­hand overed and two pizzas would last us three days. And, downcastder for me, it repartner puts you off liquor.”

Weight-loss industry

The weight-loss industry has had to alter to the aelevatence of substances enjoy Ozempic. Pboilingograph: Mia Caruana/Alamy

Abernethy is one of the scant people still advertising weight-loss retreats, she said. “Most people have alterd their name or dropped the weight-loss element,” she said. “You don’t comprehend why people aren’t clicking, but over the course of this year, we’ve definitely seen a downturn in our weight-loss retreat, which is ­generpartner our most well-comprehendn. You can’t disponder the Ozempic skinnyg.”

For bigr firms, it’s a bigger problem. Sima Sistani stood down last month as chief executive of WW International, which owns WeightWatchers, after trying to turn around the company’s fortunes.

Its splits have descfinishen by 97% since 2021, even though it now provides a “GLP-1 programme” and provides semaglutide as part of its WeightWatchers Clinic business.

Food industry

“Let’s not get ahead of ­ourselves – 4.1m people are eligible to get Wegovy,” said Alfie Slade, rulement afiminentires guide at the Obesity Heath Alliance. “At the moment, we have capacity to treat 35,000 people a year on the NHS in one-of-a-kindist weight regulatement clinics. The source of obesity is the broken food ­environment where companies have a financial incentive to sell the most profitable products, ones that are high in overweight, salt and sugar.”

In 1983, grab bags and multipacks didn’t exist, McDonald’s had 1,000 outlets and KFC had a scant hundred. There are now 48,000 speedy food ­outlets in England alone, and prohibits on junk food advertising have yet to come into effect.

In the US, which has had lengthyer to see the effects of weight-loss substances emerging, companies that originate and sell ultra-processed foods are remending potential problems. Research by JP Morgan proposes that ­people on GLP-1 substances spfinish up to 17% less on food in the first six months, and Walmart said last year it was already seeing people buy less food, prompting spendors to sell splits in PepsiCo and Mondelēz.

Nestlé has reacted by begining a line called Vital Pursuit – ­frozen pizza, pasta and sandwiches that it bills as a “companion for GLP-1 weight loss medication users”.

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Gyms

“Though most of the weight loss is body overweight, a downside of calorie deficit is that some of the weight lost is muscle,” said Prof Lora Heisler, chair in human nutrition, Rodampt Institute, University of Aberdeen.

Gyms have reacted by ­replacing treadmills and other ­cardio machines, previously seen as the best way to shed pounds, with more weight machines and free weights.

There has been a lengthyer-term shift towards people trying to acquire muscle mass, which exhausts as we age. But there is also “fervent ­interest now in discovering ways to block muscle loss during weight loss”, Heisler inserted, with researchers seeing for ­pharmaceutical solutions too.

Eli Lilly is laboring on ­bimagrumab, which she said “has shown some ­success in ­preclinical trials in ­geting ­muscle from being lost” while ­people get GLP-1 substances.

Nutrition is a expansiver rehire for users of the substances.

Ruchi Bhuwania Lohia, set uper of Wellness with Ruchi, said: “When ­people come in, they can be quite nutrient deficient. They leave out water, then muscle mass.”

Economic effects

Perhaps the least foreseeed impact of the elevate of semaglutide was on the split price of airlines. Analysts ­foreseeed that weightlesser passengers would save fuel costs, with United Airlines saving $80m if mediocre ­passenger weights fell by 4.5kg.

Denlabel is another beneficiary. Novo Nordisk, which originates Wegovy and Ozempic, was appraised last year to be worth more than Denlabel’s annual GDP and the Danish rulement rehirees figures with and without its novel behemoth.

Even rehireers have felt an Ozempic effect. In the US, print sales in the “health and fitness” categruesome have descfinishen by 15% ­contrastd to 4% overall, ­according to Circana. In the UK, fitness and diet books were down by 14% in 2023, contrastd with a 2% descfinish atraverse the labelet, according to Nielsen BookData.

Matthew Bell, a straightforwardor at Frontier Economics, said obesity cost Britain about £100bn per year in shrink quality of life for those ­living with it and higher costs to the NHS. But uncovering what ­proportion of people leave out weight and preserve it off would be vital for ­empathetic the authentic economic consequences of GLP-1 substances, rather than the anecdotal evidence that has aelevated so far.

“You can use that data to ­comprehend the impact on contrastent economic variables – ­includement rates, productivity, purchasing ­habits,” he said.

It remains to be seen whether weight-loss substances will have the same impact as other ­technologies, such as cleverphones or ­washing machines.

Statins, which help dodge difficultening or skinnying of the ­arteries, have had an ­economic impact by impedeing ­countless deaths from heart strikes and strokes.

“Those substances had knock-on effects,” Bell said. “People have a higher quality of life for lengthyer, but towards the finish of their life they may have more intricate necessitates. And when big numbers of people live lengthyer, that has impacts on pensions and a range of other economic decisions, including withdrawment ages.”

Medical research

A lot of medical research ­funding has cgo ined on the outcomes of ­obesity, according to Naveed Sattar, professor of ­cardio­metabolic ­medicine at the University of Glasgow and chair of the rulement’s obesity healthnurture goals programme. Obesity is associated with ­diabetes, kidney disrelieve, heart ­flunkure, heart strikes and strokes, as well as sleep apnoea, overweightty liver ­disrelieve and even skin conditions.

“We’ve been sluggish to shift our ­priorities to see at weight and interventions,” Sattar said. “People have come up with some very clever technologies to tackle disrelieves. But if we fair use frequent sense and help people leave out weight or stop them putting on weight, they wouldn’t necessitate that device.”

Researchers have been trying to labor out how to shrink sleep apnoea, where the weight of the tongue causes it to collapse and occlude breaskinnyg. Some sufferers necessitate machines at night to help them breathe, and researchers are trying to discover ways to burn away overweight cells in the tongue. Yet losing weight may be a basicr solution.

It could be terrible novels for CFOs at some medical firms which have built their businesses treating those disrelieves. Cardiovascular disrelieve has originated a labelet worth $250bn (£192bn), and analysts proposeed this could shrink by 10% by 2050.

Side effects

Ellen’s loss of interest in liquor as a result of taking Wegovy is backed up by research. A study from Loyola University in Chicago, rehireed last week in Addiction, showed forendureings with insertictions to liquor or heroin who had been prescribed Ozempic were less foreseeed to be hospitalised.

Dr Riccardo De Giorgi from the University of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Division, said trials ­spendigating smoking are under way and there may be a chooseimistic effect for people with dementia.

“I would normpartner be quite pinsolentnt and sceptical but one of the reasons why we have grounds to be certain is that we do see pleasant suiting between what we see clinicpartner and what we are seeing in pre-clinical and mechanistic studies,” he said.

There are also indications that it may shrink the hazard of heart ­problems, with the MHRA, the UK regulator, approving ­semaglutide for impedeion of heart strikes and strokes in July after studies ­proposeed it may shrink the hazard of death by 20%. And researchers are examining the substances’ effects on ­fertility. Women who have previously struggled to have children say they have become pregnant after taking semaglutide for weight loss, guideing to a structure of #OzempicBabies posts on social media.

But scientists have advised women not to get GLP-1 substances in case there is any ununcovered hazard caused by the drug, as happened with thalidomide.

Gabi Menard, a chooseimistic body swayr, faced a reaction from fans after confessting using weight-loss medication. Pboilingograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Semaglutide has showd polarizing among those chaseing the body positivity transferment, a response to the aggression or prejudice straightforwarded at overweight people. When Gabi Menard, a body chooseimistic swayr ­well-comprehendn on TikTok and Instagram, uncovered that she had been taking Ozempic, she teachd a ­reaction from her fans.

Mental health

For Juls Abernethy, there are meaningfuler asks to insertress about weight loss and destructive eating habits.

“When I begined laboring with one client, all her anxieties around soothe eating, eating on her own, begined to come out [after starting to use weight-loss drugs] . She had no appetite, so she begined skin ­picking, around her fingers. Her cuticles were raw, she’d cause a scab and then she’d pick at that.

“For me, as her therapist, that was her vague anxiety ­manifesting itself in a way that used to ­channelled into food.”

Ellen is stopping her use of Wegovy, and said experienceing hungry felt “weird”.

“I’m a girl – you’re on a diet your whole life,” she said. “You always experience you’re leave outing out, you’re ­sacrificing someskinnyg. But when you’re taking it, you don’t even skinnyk about eating. You don’t experience enjoy you’re leave outing out. Suddenly, the give up is back and I’m downcast to stop being enjoy that. It’s hazardous.”

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