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Say their names and feel the buzz that surrounds them: Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro. These drugs for diabetes and weight loss have recently become part of the public lexicon, so much so they even have their own hashtags, writes Tressie McMillan Cottom, an @nytopinion columnist. They promise to rid the United States of obesity, so long as they're made affordable, she says. "But these wonder drugs are also a shorthand for our coded language of shame, stigma, status and bias around fatness," @tressiemcphd writes. "Untangling those two functions is a social problem that one miracle drug cannot fix." Roughly three in four adult Americans are overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are medically groundbreaking, Tressie writes, but they are blockbusters for a different reason: "Because they promise to solve a medical problem that is also a cultural problem — how to cure the moral crisis of fat bodies that refuse to get and stay thin. That many people don’t even question that eliminating fat people is an objectively good idea is why it is such a powerful idea." Click the link in our bio for more. | Alice Rosati/Trunk Archive
Say their names and feel the buzz that surrounds them: Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro. These drugs for diabetes and weight loss have recently become part of the public lexicon, so much so they even have their own hashtags, writes Tressie McMillan Cottom, an @nytopinion columnist. They promise to rid the United States of obesity, so long as they're made affordable, she says. "But these wonder drugs are also a shorthand for our coded language of shame, stigma, status and bias around fatness," @tressiemcphd writes. "Untangling those two functions is a social problem that one miracle drug cannot fix." Roughly three in four adult Americans are overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are medically groundbreaking, Tressie writes, but they are blockbusters for a different reason: "Because they promise to solve a medical problem that is also a cultural problem — how to cure the moral crisis of fat bodies that refuse to get and stay thin. That many people don’t even question that eliminating fat people is an objectively good idea is why it is such a powerful idea." Click the link in our bio for more. | Alice Rosati/Trunk Archive
