"We Have A HUGE Problem With Obese People" | Carl Heneghan x Julia Hartley-Brewer 

I lived in France for 19 years and came back to the UK as a promise to my wife. The first thing I noticed was the utter sh1t quality of uk supermarkets and the food they sell. So, after 3 years away from France i went back last month. I confirmed my thinking. Uk supermarkets are selling obesity.

Would have been nice to hear what Carl had to say.

Fiends and collegues say I am so lucky not to be overweight, NO I am not lucky, it is 100's of thousands of not having a starter, not having a pudding, having a smaller peice of whatever. There is no MAGIC, just self restraint, if this drug can help you with that great, change your attitude to food.

Julia for heavens sake, let the man speak. He is an expert and more interesting than you.

I have hypothyroidism, putting on weight is very easy for me. I now fast 23 hours a day, eat low carb veg with meat, fish, eggs, no sugar, no grains. I walk 3 miles a day and stay generally active. It's still a hard slog, but this formula is getting my weight down, plus blood glucose and blood pressure. It's easier that you think eating once a day.

I certainly wasn't eating a cake during this.

WALL E has come true

Yes, and then fill your body with so-called anti depressants if you are unhappy about being obese. Will the meds kill you before your lifestyle?

Highly processed foods would seem to be a big issue. It's also addictive. It's not easy to eat healthily when out in the main. No processed food - I'm working on it lol x

It was also published direct to journalists. Also, THREE different Abstracts from the SAME paper! This will do more harm than good, as has already been suggested in other papers. Criminal

The medical profession is too happy to medicate rather than fix root causes. The trouble with the current crop of obesity is an over availability of ultraprocessed junk food and bad dietary advice with actually promotes the consumption of food that is harmful. Best advice yet if you see health claims on the packet avoid it like the plague.I spent years struggling to keep my weight down but following the standard low fat, eat three meales a day advice - and it was only when I got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes that I seriously did my own research and found that for me the best way is two meals a day and eat low carb. I lost 25kgs in 3 months and got my blood sugars down to the normal range.

I know a lady trying ot lose 5 stone and she said this injection makes her not want to eat at all. I said when you come off it how will you regulate your portions etc. as currently you are simply starving yourself...no answer...she will probably put it all back on...

Did you know that eating real foods (in their original form) and walking around the block every day is also a great weight loss drug that costs almost nothing and replenishes self-esteem while obliterating depression? People would do anything, pay anything except to eat right and move their fat arses.

According to the US Heart and Lung Foundation only 1/300 obese individuals will ever return to a normal BMI. They recommend any departure from a normal BMI with one other morbidity should be actively treated because the consequences to health and the economy from obesity are substantial. For some people, with low metabolic rates, weight loss is almost impossible without nutritional compromise. To date all that’s been available is surgery, which itself can be risky and create its own complications. Set against this background ozempic is a ‘game-changer’ because never before have we had an effective agent that also has positive cardio metabolic benefits. I think the problem here is the ignorance that regards obesity as a ‘lifestyle choice’ rather than a disease. Just as catastrophic rates of cancer, heart disease and dementia are products of modernity, so too obesity is a disease produced by modern living, it’s not a choice. By the time a woman becomes obese, half the cells in her body are adipocytes or ‘fat cells’. Every minute we produce a million new cells from our stem cell reserves and an adipocyte has an average life expectancy of 10 years. Obesity should not be underestimated for its clinical consequences, it deserves the respect afforded other diseases and thank God we now have an effective therapy that works reasonably well. Lets end fat shaming and help people back to health.

Can I sprinkle it on my chips instead of vinegar 😁

Not just parents, Julia, but if you look at the food served up these days in schools, compared to when we were at school, that's certainly what I'd consider unhealthy! The official advice to have a third of our plate as carbs (translated into bread/rice/pasta/chips etc) which started when the "low-fat" advice came about in the early 80s seems to coincide with the beginnings of weight increase in the general public. Jamie Oliver tried hard a few years ago to improve the quality of school dinners but it seems to me that's all disappeared now!

In a nutshell: Ozempic works because it is an appetite suppressor.

Surely one does the other?

Eat less and exercise and you will amazed at the result. Will power and effort required I'm afraid to make difference.

It's not so HUGE as in the States. I still can't believe anyone can weigh 40 stone and still be alive, and plenty of those on My 600 pound life weigh a lot more than 40 stone. Incredible! I can't see how ordinary overweight and obesity can be a health threat, although no-one wants to be over-weight or obese.

SUGAR - DIGITAL - FEAR = Lots of overweight people by design , just add PROJECT to all the above .

Just eat less and or better

Sugar!

Bring back amphetamines 😎

Studies I’ve read say You can never come off of it and people lose large amounts of muscle… we have an obesity problem, but taking drugs is not the answer..health diet, exercise, counselling for those with disordered eating..obesity costs the country billions every year

Fruit and veg aren't as healthy as you think - meat is.

From the channel that is anti-cycling and is happy to bash cyclists and encourage people to dislike cyclists. Cycling one of the best ways to lose weight and keep weight off 😞

Weak mate. Just say fat and call them fat.