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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson
Episode: America Isn’t Ready for the Weight-Loss-Drug Revolution That’s Coming
Description: We have historically thought about weight as the mere outcome of our deliberate choices about diet and exercise. We have not typically thought about weight like a disease. But in the past 18 months, there’s been an extraordinary revolution in weight-loss medication that's putting in our hands a therapy that can help people easily shed weight without major side effects. You may have heard these drugs go by the name Wegovy or Ozempic.What happens when you take a country obsessed with self-image and diet and tell them that the mystery of weight loss has now been red...