> Simply putting them on drugs for life isn't a solution.

It literally is "a" solution.

The questions should be: is it the best solution that currently exists? And is it the best that can exist?

It may be that widespread availability of weight loss drugs that actually work ends the economic incentives to promote foods which themselves promote over-eating.

Or it may be that it triggers an arms race with food manufacturers seeking out things that override the weight loss drugs.

Or there may be negative side-effects we have yet to learn about, like there have been for so many other things that previously seemed amazing or miraculous.