The UK plans to test US firm Eli Lilly’s weight-loss jab Mounjaro to help the burden on the national health care system. Over a quarter of UK adults suffered from obesity in 2023, according to government data.
The United Kingdom plans to trial the use of weight-loss drugs to help unemployed people with obesity get back to work, British Health Minister Wes Streeting said on Tuesday.
London’s plans to test US firm Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro jab comes amid the rising popularity of the diabetes medication Ozempic and Wegovy from Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk to treat obesity.
Why does UK have such an obesity problem, is it the booze?
They are 55th on the list for obesity rates.
It’s a worldwide epidemic unfortunately.
For reference:
Sugar, its always the sugar.
A lot of the working class live on lunch meal. Which is a sandwich, drink and “snack”.
The drink is always sugary one, because who is going to get water if they can get soda? The snack is chocolate bar or pack of crisps.
Then there’s big culture of take outs. Chippies are getting super expensive so it is going down a bit… But I worked with people getting 5 take outs a week because they were too tired to cook after work.
Then you go out and have a meal of some kind at / after pub.
Yeah, it’s everywhere because it’s just too easy to eat crappy food. We have maybe one take out every 2 months and do all our own cooking, but wife only works part time. So I guess it’s easier to manage? If I were single or we both worked and had multiple children… I don’t know if it’d be the same.
So not always the sugar then?
Got me there!
High fructose corn syrup is in a lot of candy now and it actively suppresses your mechanism of feeling full.
I thought it’s banned in UK? Has that changed?
The EU allows upto 30pct fructose instead of the 40 to 55 pct in the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
Processed foods and lack of access to good quality and healthy food.