> It's genuinely quite depressing that so many people in the United States have a weight problem

I agree.

I'm 51 y/o and still totally fit. Always have been. I am completely in control of what my body intakes. I can fast for 12 hours from waking up until dinner: I do it regularly (as in at least five times a month, probably a bit more).

I did do sport like crazy when I was young but don't even bother that much. Some walking, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, some bicycling, some tennis. But at a gentle pace. "More haste, less speed" (thousands of years old saying).

It's crazy to poison oneself to the point where another poison (that Ozempic drug) is needed to counter the first poison.

I'm not saying it cannot help but sadly there's no way to say it nicely: if you need that, your body controls your mind.

It should be the contrary.

> Something is seriously wrong societally ...

The biggest issue to me is we live in societies (not just in the US) where we victimize everyone. Nothing is never nobody's fault. We find excuses for just about everything.

We should go back thousands of years and read the classics: "healthy mind in a healthy body". Greek philosophers had already figured that in the Antiquity.

Mind over body.