Ozempic threatening body-positive acceptance: Reports | On Balance

Recent reports have called into question the effect Ozempic, a drug designed to treat diabetes but widely used for weight loss, is having on the body-positivity movement. Dr. Shauna Levy, assistant professor of surgery at Tulane University Medical Center, joins “On Balance With Leland Vittert” to discuss the reports, saying, “When that movement came forward, people confused beauty with health.”

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[corinne]

I am fat and I am ashamed by it. There is nothing positive about it

[hahamasala]

Body positivity?!? Why does it only apply to fat women, not fat men or short men anyway? Being fat is not healthy for anybody and being short is not a choice for those men.

[danmayberry]

Great discussion. Obesity was a major co-morbidity factor in covid deaths. School kids should learn about empty calories, fatty foods, food addiction, dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, etc. There is no shame in having a weight problem if better health is your goal.

[mc]

Where did society veer off the rails with body positivity? Lets see... What is a woman? Yeah, it was around that time.

[Zoe-rugw]

Ozempic deserves the noble peace prize- people are buying less food (according to walmart ceo lol), people are able to tackle their obesity so now society can once again acknowledge that **being on the brink of a heart attack** is NOT positive, and all jokes aside it has been making breakthroughs in womens health issues such as PCOS, adenomyosis, &endo.

[Jay_in_Japan]

Body positivity is a euphemism for "death-by-obesity positivity". Yeah, you're dead, but hey! At least you "lived your truth" and "don't need no man" **finger snaps** 💅

[MorningClarity]

What a silly conversation, adking a doctor how this happened? Ask Dove's advertising, or a woke activist...

[Mmmmkaaay]

Here's my thoughts about weight. People who have excess fat know they have excess fat and they don't really need other people to tell them that they have excess fat. It's not like an alcoholic who is in denial about their addiction. It's pretty freaking obvious.
Also, unless you're sleeping with the person, I don't understand why it bothers other people that people struggle with their weight. Don't look at them if it bothers you. Keep scrolling if it bothers you. You can't shame someone into a beautiful body or into a healthy lifestyle. All you can do is be a good example.
We don't have to say that it's okay to be obese, but we also don't have to treat people differently because they are obese, unless it hinders their ability to do a specific job or infringes on another person's comfort, such as flying.
And the same thing goes for people who are very thin. Leave them alone. Skinny shaming is just as bad.
If we're so concerned about overweight folks in America, then why aren't we pushing the FDA to get nasty processed food off the shelves that is illegal in other countries? Why aren't we pushing for healthy school lunches? Why are there candy potato chip and pop machines in high schools now?

[MntThomason]

All r beautiful how we are made but at same time take care of yourself and be healthy and care for yourself God cares about you and all of us that struggle to be a a accepted and change how we all feel when beinv judged in not fitting in causes harm in so many ways even when innocent done or over looked plz b kind understanding compassionate humanity and stop doin those things

[sirloin]

there's only 3 ways to lose wt.: hard work, drug use, or fkkkn majik - seems u found the rite answer...