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Obesity Rate Declining in U.S. (gallup.com) 138

Gallup: After peaking at a record high of 39.9% in 2022, the U.S. adult obesity rate has gradually declined to 37.0% in 2025. This is a statistically meaningful decrease representing an estimated 7.6 million fewer obese adults compared with three years ago. Meanwhile, diagnoses of diabetes -- a lifetime disease that can be managed but not cured -- have now reached an all-time high of 13.8%. Both metrics are part of the ongoing Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index.

[...] Over the past year, more Americans have turned to Type 2 antidiabetic GLP-1 drugs such as semaglutide (brand names Ozempic and Wegovy) for weight loss purposes. The percentage of adults who report taking this class of medicine specifically for weight loss has increased to 12.4%, compared with 5.8% in February 2024 when Gallup first measured it. Usage among women (15.2%) continues to outpace men (9.7%), but both groups have more than doubled their use in the past year. These results dovetail with increased awareness of the drugs used for weight loss, which has risen from 80% to 89% nationally in the same period.

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  • by RobinH ( 124750 ) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:55AM (#65761670) Homepage
    It's interesting... if you drop the obesity rate, you'd think that would lower the rate of diabetes, since obesity is a risk factor for diabetes. But I suppose once you get diabetes you have it, so the rate will probably continue to climb for a while because the obesity rate is still high.
    • by OffTheLip ( 636691 ) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:57AM (#65761684)
      Other risk factors include what you eat. Maybe the GLP-1 users are still eating crap, just less of it.
      • Or perhaps folks become obese enough to get diabetes, which causes them to decide to get on the GLP-1 and lose the weight, but kidney function does not return.
        • by tlhIngan ( 30335 ) <<slashdot> <at> <worf.net>> on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:41PM (#65762796)

          Or perhaps folks become obese enough to get diabetes, which causes them to decide to get on the GLP-1 and lose the weight, but kidney function does not return.

          Insulin is produced by the pancreas. Type 2 diabetes is caused by a general insensitivity to insulin by the cells - think of it as a producer and consumer. Type 1 is where your pancreas fails to produce insulin, type 2 is where your cells fail to absorb insulin.

          GLP-1 can't really solve your cells being desensitized to insulin.

          Anyhow perhaps the other solution is food is so expensive that people are eating less? And fast food is so freaking expensive that you're not indulging on Big Macs so you're eating cheaper foods and less of them. Eating less is one of the biggest ways to lose weight.

          • by keltor ( 99721 ) *
            Long term T2DM sufferers developer fairly permanent damage to their pancreatic beta cells which in most cases means they will continue to suffer from every worse T2DM and eventually they will get T1DM and organ failure - mind you the cardiac damage is much worse and has a faster progression so you'll die from that first.
    • I suppose once you get diabetes you have it, ...

      While there doesn't seem to be a cure, apparently Type-2 diabetes can be reversed, or put into remission, through diet, exercise and weight loss.

      Google: type 2 diabetes (reverse|remission) [google.com]

      • by ukoda ( 537183 )
        "Diet and exercise"? I think that is the wrong audience. From this story it would appear drugs are the answer. Why exercise restraint and self control to eat more healthy when can just pop some pills and continue your lifestyle with no changes?

        Personally I think the reasons diet and exercise fail is people make to bigger changes in hopes of quick results and then give up and fall back to old habits. Far more effective if make small changes, get used to them, then make more small changes. Wash rinse
        • just pop some pills and continue your lifestyle with no changes?

          Apparently, these folks are changing their lifestyle because of the pills. It decreases your appetite, specifically sugary foods and alcohol, and makes fruits and vegetables taste better.

    • Metabolic disease doesn't turn on like a switch at a certain weight, it takes a while to develop. And when you fix your eating, it takes a while to undevelop.

    • Are people more likely to get their diabetes type 2 diagnosed so that they can get semaglitude medications paid for by insurance?
    • Obesity is what you might call a "leading indicator" predicting future diabetes. Diabetes *follows* obesity. So if the obesity rate is just now going down, we would expect to see a reduction in diabetes in the future, but not yet.

    • by keltor ( 99721 ) *
      Over the long term, T2DM causes permanent damage to the pancreatic beta cells. That damage does not reverse (except maybe it does in some cases, but probably it takes extreme amounts of time - think decades.)

      For those people they will always have issues related to their beta cells.

      Additionally, general insulin insensitivity decline can take several years. In some cases there's evidence that dietary ketosis seems to remit the condition for the most part. Its not a silver bullet of course, but its a workab
    • But I suppose once you get diabetes you have it

      Only if it is Type 1 Diabetes. Type 2 Diabetes is trivially treatable... for various definitions of trivial.

      (no carbs or sugars for 3 months will reset your insulin levels, i know, i did it)

  • by skam240 ( 789197 ) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:57AM (#65761686)

    I'm curious to see where this widescale use of weight loss drugs over personal responsibility (ignoring the small minority of people who legitimately need such drugs) takes us.

    • Re:I'm curious (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Kernel Kurtz ( 182424 ) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:04PM (#65761724)

      I'm curious to see where this widescale use of weight loss drugs over personal responsibility (ignoring the small minority of people who legitimately need such drugs) takes us.

      I'm curious too, for different reasons. I recently saw a documentary on GLP1s [gem.cbc.ca] that suggested they may have systemic anti-inflammatory effects that are potentially beneficial for quite a few conditions beyond what they are approved for. I've also seen research that suggests they may have unforeseen and/or undesirable long-term side effects. Obviously more research is needed, but as someone who does not need to lose weight I'm still very interested in possible benefits beyond that. This could be a more significant breakthrough than it appears to be at first glance.

      • by skam240 ( 789197 )

        Yeah, these folks losing this weight will need to be taking these drugs for the rest of their lives if they want to keep the weight off without effort. It will be interesting to see the long term effects of this.

        Also of interest is that the issues that caused the weight problem for most folks like lack of exercise / bad dietary choices are still there even if they are eating less. What will their health be like in the long term after leading an unhealthy life without the weight?

        • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

          by TheWho79 ( 10289219 )
          > lack of exercise

          Is not an issue for most over weight. I ran marathons for a few years and put on weight.

          >What will their health be like in the long term

          Mass majority drop in A1C, liver enzymes stabilize, cholesterol comes down, blood pressure comes down, heart rate comes down. All that is good news for health long term.

          • Re:I'm curious (Score:4, Informative)

            by skam240 ( 789197 ) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:43PM (#65761876)

            Is not an issue for most over weight. I ran marathons for a few years and put on weight.

            Not only is that incredibly anecdotal but your weight gain was likely muscle mass which is not what is fueling obesity in any country.

            Mass majority drop in A1C, liver enzymes stabilize, cholesterol comes down, blood pressure comes down, heart rate comes down. All that is good news for health long term.

            Exercise and good diet have health virtues well beyond that of keeping weight off. Drugs don't make these problems go away.

            • by dfghjk ( 711126 )

              "Not only is that incredibly anecdotal..."

              Better than the evidence of your claims.

              "...but your weight gain was likely muscle mass..."

              How would you know that?

              "Drugs don't make these problems go away."

              What problems? Exercise and a good diet?

              • by skam240 ( 789197 )

                Better than the evidence of your claims

                I didn t think I needed to provide evidence for the fact that a drug won't make the underlying problems that cause obesity to magically go away. Are you maybe a little on the slow side and need the "magic isn't real" talk?

                How would you know that?

                Working out creates muscle mass which has significant weight. This is pretty basic stuff.

                problems? Exercise and a good diet?

                The lack of these, yes.

                • I didn t think I needed to provide evidence for the fact that a drug won't make the underlying problems that cause obesity to magically go away.

                  Well, you should have. The current research indicates that ~half of patients keep the weight off, or even lose more weight, up to a year after stopping GLP-1s.

                  ChatGPT helped find a nice source: Many Patients Maintain Weight Loss a Year After Stopping Semaglutide and Liraglutide [epicresearch.org]

                  • by skam240 ( 789197 )

                    That's old data by the standards of these drugs as they are pretty new. There are far more folks taking these drugs now then when they were gathering that data. I'm curious to see how that effects things.

                    Personally, I don't see how losing weight would motivate someone to eat healthy and get good exercise when being obese didn't do that already but if it works it works. I would love to be wrong here as I don't wish shitty health on anyone but the worst :)

        • Weird. I used semaglutide to lose weight, reached my target and have kept it off while no longer using it. Strange.
          • by skam240 ( 789197 )

            That is incredibly weird if you didn't make lifestyle changes along with the drug. None of these drugs have lasting effects without making changes to lifestyle https://www.uhhospitals.org/bl... [uhhospitals.org].

            • Re: I'm curious (Score:5, Informative)

              by zawarski ( 1381571 ) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @01:46PM (#65762102)
              I absolutely made lifestyle changes. The drug helped me lose weight at a level that encouraged me to make and continue the lifestyle changes. I was being glib on the same fashion that you were excluding anything but a negative outcome for people using these drugs.
              • by skam240 ( 789197 )

                Here's the funny thing about your situation, if the lifestyle changes are enough to keep the weight off then they would have been enough for you to lose the weight without the drug.

                Never the less good for you on making the changes in the end. They take effort but you'll likely enjoy significantly better health when you're old and not just from keeping the weight off.

                • by dfghjk ( 711126 )

                  "Here's the funny thing about your situation, if the lifestyle changes are enough to keep the weight off then they would have been enough for you to lose the weight without the drug."

                  How would you know? There's no greater enabler of lifestyle changes than weight loss.

                  "Never the less good for you on making the changes in the end. They take effort but you'll likely enjoy significantly better health when you're old and not just from keeping the weight off."

                  I guess he's not as big a loser as the others you sta

                  • by skam240 ( 789197 )

                    How would you know? There's no greater enabler of lifestyle changes than weight loss.

                    What? I have no idea what you're saying here. Are you saying it is necessary to lose weight in order to lose weight?

                    I guess he's not as big a loser as the others you stand in judgement of. How weird he keeps his weight off without effort though, right?

                    What a fucking drama queen you are.

            • by dfghjk ( 711126 )

              How would you know? Anything that disagrees with your world view is "incredibly weird"?

              • by skam240 ( 789197 )

                I literally provided a citation to back up my claim. That's how I know.

                What a bullshit troll you are with all this victim crap you keep spewing at me.

            • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

              Lifestyle changes often follow significant weight loss via medication. The patient feels a lot better, has more energy, and tends to want to enjoy the opportunity.

        • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

          I know blaming people for being weak minded morons makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but the reality is that three quarters of Americans are overweight. It's the normal state, being a healthy weight is the exception.

          There's clearly some environmental factor at play here.

          • by skam240 ( 789197 )

            There's clearly some environmental factor at play here.

            When have I ever said there wasn't? All I'm getting at is that taking weight loss drugs don't make any of these negative factors go away and they will continue to have negative effects on people even with weight loss drugs. Personal responsibility is what make's the lifestyle problems that are causing the symptom that is weight gain to go away. At least for most folks.

            • by dfghjk ( 711126 )

              "... taking weight loss drugs don't make any of these negative factors go away ..."

              How do you know?

              "... they will continue to have negative effects on people even with weight loss drugs."

              How do you know.

              "Personal responsibility is what make's the lifestyle problems that are causing the symptom that is weight gain to go away."

              And that's what you really want to say, that overweight people are inferior to you.

        • by dfghjk ( 711126 )

          "...without effort..."

          Funny how so few words can tell everyone who you are.

          "Also of interest..."

          Interest to whom? And for what purpose? We know what contributes to weight problems, what you really mean is that you're interested in disparaging others.

          "What will their health be like in the long term after leading an unhealthy life without the weight?"

          And there it is, you declare weight problems to be a result of "an unhealthy life". As if you would know.

          • by skam240 ( 789197 )

            Funny how so few words can tell everyone who you are.

            Funny how you read non existent persecuting in everything I wrote.

            Interest to whom? And for what purpose? We know what contributes to weight problems, what you really mean is that you're interested in disparaging others.

            Me because this is one giant experiment in health and I'm legitimately curious to see how it turns out. I am glad not to be one of the guinea pigs though.

            And there it is, you declare weight problems to be a result of "an unhealthy life". As if you would know

            If one does't have underlying health problems causing ones weight problem then yeah, they have an unhealthy life style. How is that a controversial claim? It's not like there's cases where being obese is healthy.

        • Yeah, these folks losing this weight will need to be taking these drugs for the rest of their lives if they want to keep the weight off without effort. It will be interesting to see the long term effects of this.

          If it turns out this drug has protective effects in other domains such as heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimers, even some cancers (and many people think it does, but doing trials and collecting needed data in such disparate realms takes a long time) then one day people may take it simply for its prophylactic effect. I'm taking a wait and see approach, but it is certainly much too soon to be dismissive. Interesting overview of proposed MOAs here;

          https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... [nih.gov]

          • by skam240 ( 789197 )

            Oh, I'm genuinely curious to see how this big health experiment plays out. I just find it hard to believe that losing weight with drugs will make one as healthy or healthier then maintaining a healthy diet and getting exercise. At least for those people who can lose weight with such things.

            • I just find it hard to believe that losing weight with drugs will make one as healthy or healthier then maintaining a healthy diet and getting exercise.

              If that is/was all there is to it, I would totally agree, indeed that was my first impression at the idea of a "weight loss drug" as well. I don't discount the existence of drugs that can make both healthy and unhealthy people healthier though. Lots of research going into this now, which is good. Hopefully useful data comes in a timely manner.

            • It will end very badly. The weight a lot of these people are first losing is from muscle loss due to poor nutrition because they're simply eating less of their poor diets. Anyone taking these meds are supposed to be on special, strict diets and a lot of people ignore those. For those of you who can follow such diets, you can loose the weight without the meds.

              As for all those "protective effects", those are all side effects from not having such horrible diets. You can get all those benefits from shifting

              • As for all those "protective effects", those are all side effects from not having such horrible diets. You can get all those benefits from shifting your diet, no meds needed.

                Much as with vaccines I will wait for the clinical data and the experts to weigh in rather than taking my medical advice from some guy on the internet. That is something that also often ends badly.

      • Well, it goes far beyond that. Studies in progress are showing most people that have issues with various addictions (from caffeine, tobbaco, drinking, and even harder drugs), are having success kicking-the-habit while taking glp1's. ( I quit coffee after 2 pots a day for 40years...wasn't even trying)
        • Well, it goes far beyond that. Studies in progress are showing most people that have issues with various addictions (from caffeine, tobbaco, drinking, and even harder drugs), are having success kicking-the-habit while taking glp1's. ( I quit coffee after 2 pots a day for 40years...wasn't even trying)

          Obviously some addictions are quite harmful so anything that helps with that is potentially useful. On the flip side one of the negatives I have seen mentioned is a loss of interest in some of those typical objects of addiction. Eating less will certainly help with weight loss, but not enjoying food as much as before may or may not be worth it if that is the choice. Serious question since anecdotal data points are welcome here - do you enjoy coffee anymore? Between the two pots and none, is there still

    • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

      Always with the "personal responsibility" rhetoric. Were people on average really more personally responsible 20, 50, 100 years ago? Surely it can't have anything to do with the cost of healthy, fresh foods steadily rising compared to processed, sugar-laden crap? Or the spread of food deserts? Or the decline in real wages for the lowest-income earners, and when you work three gig jobs to make ends meet, you don't have time to go to the gym, make regular grocery runs (since non-processed foods go bad faster)
      • by skam240 ( 789197 )

        Always with the "personal responsibility" rhetoric. Were people on average really more personally responsible 20, 50, 100 years ago?

        No, as you go on to point they had different lifestyles. I never said people were more virtuous once upon a time.

        Nowadays keeping weight off takes personal responsibility to avoid all the crap food and get good exercise. Once upon a time things were in fact different though.

        • Always with the "personal responsibility" rhetoric. Were people on average really more personally responsible 20, 50, 100 years ago?

          No, as you go on to point they had different lifestyles. I never said people were more virtuous once upon a time.

          Nowadays keeping weight off takes personal responsibility to avoid all the crap food and get good exercise. Once upon a time things were in fact different though.

          Yep, once upon a time it was hard to get enough food to get fat, especially with all of the exercise that was required just to live. People didn't change, the environment did. I'm not sure why you think it's now a moral failing not to exercise the personal responsibility that was previously unnecessary. Why not just accept GLP-1 agonists as part of the new environment?

          • by skam240 ( 789197 )

            Yep, once upon a time it was hard to get enough food to get fat, especially with all of the exercise that was required just to live.

            This was not a problem in the 60's and 70's before our obesity problem started.

            eople didn't change, the environment did. I'm not sure why you think it's now a moral failing not to exercise the personal responsibility that was previously unnecessary. Why not just accept GLP-1 agonists as part of the new environment?

            Drugs like GLP-1 only address the symptom of weight gain that a poor lifestyle creates for many. Despite the weight loss the poor lifestyle will still take a toll on health. Either laws need to be passed to better regulate the American food supply and mandate certain amounts of exercise or people need to practice better personal accountability. These are the only way to address the underlying lifestyle problems that I can think o

            • by dfghjk ( 711126 )

              "This was not a problem in the 60's and 70's before our obesity problem started."

              Evidence that it is not personal responsibility but external factors, facts you conveniently ignored until you got called out.

              "Drugs like GLP-1 only address the symptom of weight gain that a poor lifestyle creates for many."

              Now with the hateful rhetoric. "Drugs like GLP-1" don't care how you gained weight and they don't work only for those loser slobs you think everyone but you is.

              "Despite the weight loss the poor lifestyle wil

              • by skam240 ( 789197 )

                Evidence that it is not personal responsibility but external factors, facts you conveniently ignored until you got called out.

                Wtf is with all these nonsense post from you putting words in mouth and claiming things that aren't there? If hunger wasn't a major US problem during the 60's and 70's but neither was obesity then it wasn't the elimination of hunger that is causing our obesity problems.

                Now with the hateful rhetoric. "Drugs like GLP-1" don't care how you gained weight and they don't work only for those loser slobs you think everyone but you is.

                What's with you and this awful drama. There is nothing hateful in what I said there and I didn't engage in any of the name calling you're claiming. That's you being a piece of shit and putting words i neither said nor meant in my mouth.

                There is no "the poor lifestyle"

                Yes th

            • Yep, once upon a time it was hard to get enough food to get fat, especially with all of the exercise that was required just to live.

              This was not a problem in the 60's and 70's before our obesity problem started.

              Food was a significantly larger [cepr.net] percentage of disposable income in the 60s and 70s. And, as I mentioned before, that steady decline in the money spent in food was actually offset to a large degree by an increase in eating out (or ordering in). If we still ate at home as much as we used to, the drop would be even larger.

      • Surely it can't have anything to do with the cost of healthy, fresh foods steadily rising compared to processed, sugar-laden crap?

        No, it has to do with food -- good, bad and indifferent -- getting far cheaper and more abundant. Americans spend a much smaller percentage of their income on food than they did, even in spite of the fact that we eat restaurant-prepared food far, far more often than we used to.

        Yes, the availability of cheap, convenient, tasty and empty calories is a bad thing, and its cost has fallen faster than fresh food, but all food is much, much cheaper than it was when America was much slimmer. It's also relevant

    • by dbialac ( 320955 )
      I would contend that use of weight loss drugs is legitimate. These medications make overeating difficult and prevent illnesses like diabetes. Doing weight loss "the old fashioned way" is incredibly difficult for people who eat as a coping mechanism, including for past abuse of boredom. Those issues typically need to be resolved for success at weight loss.
      • by skam240 ( 789197 )

        Yes, they're fantastic for people who have outside health issues that cause weight gain, this is why I've been consistently talking about "most people" and not "all people". The fact that obesity has tripled in the US over the last 60 years pretty clearly spells out to me that most of our obese have lifestyle problems and not outside health conditions causing their weight problems or this number would have stayed consistent. It's not like prior to 60 years ago no one ate when they became stressed for instan

        • by dbialac ( 320955 )

          It's not like prior to 60 years ago no one ate when they became stressed for instance.

          That's absolutely correct. They used to smoke a cigarette instead. This brings up the question, which is worse: cigarette smoking or obesity. They can both kill you at an early age.

    • Personal responsibility is not the main cause of obesity. Everyone that has no issues love to talk about that as the solution, but they do not understand reality. They think everyone is like them - not exercising enough because they are lazy, eating too much for no good reason.

      I will give you a simple example. Lets say you get a disease - iga nephropathy - in college.

      Your own immune system know attacks your kidneys. You do your best and put off the deadly consequences for 20 years by taking medicine and

      • Re:I'm curious (Score:4, Insightful)

        by skam240 ( 789197 ) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @01:26PM (#65762034)

        Sigh... yes, some folks have health issues that cause weight gain and for them these weight loss drugs are a blessing. This is why I've been consistently saying "most folks" and using similar wordage. Nothing you list explains the fact that obesity rates have tripled in the US over the last 60 years though https://usafacts.org/articles/... [usafacts.org] . Clearly there is a lifestyle problem for most folks here.

      • by skam240 ( 789197 )

        I'm very sorry, I thought I saw your post under my own comments and your post certainly looked like it could be addressing something I was saying.

        Never the less my point about about lifestyle being a major problem stand.

        • by skam240 ( 789197 )

          Ha, never mind. clearly I need to get back to work and stop splitting my time between activities.

      • Re:I'm curious (Score:4, Insightful)

        by techno-vampire ( 666512 ) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @01:53PM (#65762122) Homepage
        Personal responsibility is not the main cause of obesity.

        You're right. Personal responsibility isn't a cause of obesity; the problem is lack of personal responsibility.
        • Re:I'm curious (Score:5, Insightful)

          by serviscope_minor ( 664417 ) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:25PM (#65762450) Journal

          Don't be an idiot.

          After bulldozing city centers to make them car dependent, you then passed a bunch of laws that make our illegal to put anything you might want to walk to within walking distance of most houses. And then utterly inadequate enforcement of anti trust and anti dumping legislation resulted in the destruction of everything that remained.

          End result is now most Americans have to drive everywhere, particularly to big box stores stacked with the worst kind of food optimized for addictiveness. It's much harder to have "personal responsibility" when all the good choices have been removed to benefit the largest of corporations.

          This is why the adult obesity rate is lower in NYC. It's not because New Yorkers are a superior breed with stiffer backbones and stronger wills, it's because the choices to be responsible haven't been completely destroyed.

          • by mjwx ( 966435 )

            Don't be an idiot.

            After bulldozing city centers to make them car dependent, you then passed a bunch of laws that make our illegal to put anything you might want to walk to within walking distance of most houses. And then utterly inadequate enforcement of anti trust and anti dumping legislation resulted in the destruction of everything that remained.

            End result is now most Americans have to drive everywhere, particularly to big box stores stacked with the worst kind of food optimized for addictiveness. It's much harder to have "personal responsibility" when all the good choices have been removed to benefit the largest of corporations.

            This is why the adult obesity rate is lower in NYC. It's not because New Yorkers are a superior breed with stiffer backbones and stronger wills, it's because the choices to be responsible haven't been completely destroyed.

            This... and the idea of local services is derided as a plot to what... make things more local? See the hullabaloo over 15 minute cities.

          • by 0xG ( 712423 )

            Waaaah! Society made me fat!

    • I had a teach friend once tell me, "If a student fails a test, it's the student's fault. If the whole class fails the test, it's the teacher's fault."

      Personal responsibility is a factor, yes, but it doesn't explain the runaway epidemic of obesity. A problem on that scale speaks to more systemic issues.

      • by skam240 ( 789197 )

        I agree with your teacher friend's claim but given that obesity isn't a problem for everyone or even a majority of the population that quote actually supports what I'm saying.

        • There is certainly an aspect of obesity that is a matter of self-control. But I don't believe that is the whole story. As a person who does control my own weight and am within the normal range, I know that it is really difficult to maintain that healthy profile. I don't think it was always that difficult.

          • by skam240 ( 789197 )

            I work a good bit on keeping my weight in a good spot too and fortunately I've been successful. I just find it hard to believe the people who use these drugs will be anywhere near as healthy as if they lost the weight through diet and exercise as their weight problems are just symptoms of doing poorly with one or both of those things and both of those things have health values well beyond keeping weight off.

            That is for people without underlying medical issues of course.

    • I think you mean, "self-restraint", "discipline", or "willpower".
  • Doubtful this is mostly weight loss drugs. This is likely post-pandemic thinning.

  • The FA movement got so much pushback people actually believe being a fat@ss is bad, again. Maybe we'll get all the way back to the 90's and racism will get fixed too, though the democrats might not have a platform anymore. It's critical they keep it alive in hearts and minds.

    Before I get marked troll, Morgan Freeman says it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

  • ... for a sick society. Low quality food, low quality culture, need a stinkbox (car) to do anything in the majority of the country. We'll still be lonely, disconnected, and sick even if we take drugs to paper over the problem. God damn America, land that I loathe.
  • The percentage of adults who report taking this class of medicine specifically for weight loss has increased to 12.4%, compared with 5.8% in February 2024 when Gallup first measured it. Usage among women (15.2%) continues to outpace men (9.7%), but both groups have more than doubled their use in the past year.

    It's crazy that more than 10% of Americans are taking these drugs. Especially since it sounds like a lot of insurance plans don't cover it (which actually seems surprising considering how much obesity

    • I think the issue is that those drugs cost money, now, for a particular insurance company. Future costs for long-term problems are future shareholders' problem, or potentially someone else's problem entirely. Imagine a child with Type I diabetes- it's laughable to think that anybody paid for the full risks of 80 years of treatment costs when that child was born. You can't even guess who's paying for that care next year or the year after, let alone 64 years down the road.
  • by Fly Swatter ( 30498 ) on Thursday October 30, 2025 @04:51PM (#65762642) Homepage
    I hope this report accounts for that.
  • Really cool to hear today that Lilly is working on a version of Brenipatide + GLP+GIP (Mounjaro/wegovy) that is specifically to treat addictions like alcohol and opiode use disorder.
  • Does anyone believe surveys any more? Seems to me that people who have successfully lost weight are more likely to talk to Gallup about their weight.

  • 69% vs. 43% under old def:

    https://www.massgeneralbrigham... [massgeneralbrigham.org]

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