Obesity rates are on the rise in all modern countries, and although the rate of growth is different, in no country does it show any signs of slowing down.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-adults-defined-a...

Are these drugs good? I'm not sure, but I think a lot of these drugs seem to be reducing how much people eat -- helping people break from the life time of bad habits they've learned since childhood from their parents/friend/media/fast food industry. I don't know if eating habits in childhood can embed themselves as permanent alterations to the person's biology, like myopia in eye sight. But if it does, then these drugs might be the "glasses" equivalent for metabolism/eating. Citation needed. But if so, then let's see if we can learn from our mistake with how glasses are perscribed, and instead of leaving children in the same environment that results in the development of the same diagnosis which will then require them to also take ozempic/use glasses/etc, and instead raise them so that they never develop the problem in the first place.

Note: even the myopia link is still being researched I believe, but more papers seem to be showing this potential relationship.

Variables:

- unhappiness increasing (citation needed)

- low income people buy cheap, processed food

- middle class people eat out at restaurants more since they can afford it

- upper class people likely the healthiest?

- unhealthy processed foods have become regular standard snacks (eg chips, cola) taking the place of healthy snacks like fruits/veg

- portion size increases in the home and at restaurants

- the fast food industries incentive to get people to eat more

- people developing bad eating habits at young ages, which are significantly harder to break later in life and could potentially result in permanent changes to metabolism (similar to how myopia has been linked to children spending a lot of time inside/books/screens)

- low availability of healthy fresh food -- when was the last time you got fruit as a snack in the middle of the day? Or for dessert?

- reduced mobility; sitting jobs, order to your door, work from home