The Global Obesity Epidemic

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Some quacks are up in arms against the new weight-loss drugs.
Meet Dr. Boz (Annette Bosworth), who popped up in a YouTube short (43 sec.):

Ozempic should not be allowed for weightless! Mark my words!
Put them in a time capsule and open it in 15 years.

Her argument against Ozempic is the loss of muscle mass that accompanies the weight loss.
I tried to find out more about her and found this:

Jackley: Violations by Bosworth and Walker were 'serious, deliberate' (ArgusLeader)
Bosworth in 2012 waged a public battle against the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners to keep her medical license. She was accused of allowing a physician's assistant to practice without a license.
Bosworth kept her license after agreeing to a mentoring program that included treatment with a psychologist and psychiatrist.

A few years later, there was this, from the same article:

On Tuesday night, Annette Bosworth lost the South Dakota U.S. Senate race she spent the last year seeking.
Twelve hours later, she was arrested.
Now Bosworth faces 12 felony charges: allegations she lied on her petitions to get on the U.S. Senate ballot.
(...)
Bosworth's charges relate to signatures gathered while she was on a mission trip to the Philippines in January. She signed oaths that South Dakotans who had signed those petitions had done so in her presence, which prosecutors say is both perjury and filing false documents.

And there's her Facebook video:

Fruit is EVIL!

242K views · 1.9K reactions | Fruit is EVIL!! | Dr.Boz

Fruit is EVIL!!.

www.facebook.com

Those new drugs must have been a hard one to swallow for alternative dietitians ...

 

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A Danish translation made me aware of this article:
Nature's Ozempic: What and how you eat can increase levels of GLP-1 without drugs (TheConversation, May 15, 2025)

It depends on not only what you eat but also on the way you eat it and the order in which you eat different items of food.
However, the impact on your appetite is far weaker than the impact of the new drugs. Even the lowest dosage of Ozempic increases GLP-1 levels more than 1,000 times more than food can do.
However, it sounds as if it might be worth a try for people who can't afford the weight-loss drugs or people who have to stop using them.

 

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WARNING! Possible Ozempic side effect!

Why didn't I buy Novo Nordisk stock before this piece of news?
If an RCT can confirm this, there'll be more money in Ozempic than in Viagra!

Ozempics mulige effekt på penis går viralt (Sundhedspolitisk Tidsskrift, June 24, 2025)
Ozempic's possible effect on penis goes viral

Weight Loss Drugs Are Giving Men 'Ozempic Penis' (Vice, June 12, 2025)
Then after about seven months on Tirzepatide in my case I gained 1.5 inches in length.

Average penis size has increased - and Ozempic could be to blame, experts say (New York Post, June 8, 2025)
Men Are Claiming Ozempic, GLP-1 Meds Are Making Their Genitals Bigger (Forbes, June 16/20, 2025)

However, some urologists think that it may be an optical illusion due to weight loss.

'Ozempic Penis' Side Effect of Weight Loss Meds (The View on YouTube, June 20, 2025 - 1:03 min.)
'The View' co-hosts discuss a new side effect reported by some male users.