alt Hacker News> A small % of people are able to achieve significant weight loss with diet and exercise. And an even smaller % of that group are able to maintain it for the long term.
Ozempic is only fighting symptoms of that, not the root of the problem which is the stigma around weightgain, being a big person, just fatphobia being extremly generalized and a lot of shame surrounding weight. While it's amazing for people who have medical conditions making them gain a lot of weight, just saying that they should take ozempic will not change people gaining too much weight. It's not anything like high cholesterol or high blood sugar in most cases.
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A few questions:
Can you qualify what you consider to be a 'symptom' vs a 'condition'?
Is high cholesterol a symptom of something, or a condition itself? What about high blood sugar?
Would you say that acid reflux is a symptom or a condition?
Is a person that takes Prilosec daily to treat bad reflux treating the symptoms and not the underlying condition?
What about people using asthma inhalers, or epipens: symptom or condition?
Are people allowed to use the medicines if their underlying conditions are not being treated?
> While it's amazing for people who have medical conditions making them gain a lot of weight,
You mean matter is created out of thin air because of a "medical condition" and not by eating too much food?
Fighting the symptoms of what?
Taking ozempic will definitely keep people from gaining weight and will help them lose weight.