Additional weight, just adds complications to health, and shortens life. Helping a motivated person lose weight, so that they can become mobile enough (and wise enough to moderate their diet) to keep it off - is a good thing.
Cigarettes and speed?
These new GLP-1 drugs are a real game-changer - the first real cure for America’s obesity epidemic. Given how many people are on Medicare and receiving medical treatment on the taxpayer’s dime for obesity-related illnesses, the government should be subsidizing GLP-1 drugs for every obese person who wants it. It’d save the taxpayer billions annually.
Terzepitide alone works great. I can’t afford it anymore, but I would never take hormone replacement therapy. Too many adverse effects.
My late father in law made a comment that still makes me smile. In essence he said that a man wants his wife to maintain her looks and weight. But after they get married all these women get fat, and when they get older, THEN they worry about their weight. He wasn’t wrong.
Drugs for everything..the American way. Eat right, exercise and no problem. Doesn’t require any drugs but a good beer or whiskey helps.
Not eating but little is far better.