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The difference in mannequin shape in Victoria's Secret in Rome comapred to the UK or Japan is striking. Media representation matters enormously (pun intended).

@ChrisMayLA6 I'd suggest that science is dominated by corporate interests, and that weight-loss medicine is an attempt to corporatise a response to the problem caused by corporate activity: the industrial exploitation of food production, and the industrial dominance of education and time management management.

Ultra-processed food manufactures addicted, busy, fat people who haven't got time or the knowledge to do anything except purchase a high-speed, low-engagement treatment. Make a problem. Profit. Address that problem. Profit again.

The corporate cure manufactures dependency just as much as does the manufactured cause.

See also: climate crisis, carbon sequestration.

@ChrisMayLA6 I dunno, man. I'm on it to take some pressure off my badly injured knee, and my husband is on it as well, with remarkable benefits for his health. As a long time owner of a female body, in my experience the most judgement of that body comes from other women. If men aren't interested in sleeping with me they generally don't care a jot what my BMI is.

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There have been too many cases of women who are not medically obese taking it to 'look better'.

And doctors are still too focused on weight to follow up other symptoms.
Not just my own experiences but plenty of others too.

The reason I have been finally getting diagnosed with so many 'new' health issues in the last few years is that I finally reached the age when doctors take less notice of my weight and sometimes actually listen to me.
I might have had a much better life if they'd been diagnosed earlier.
And the irony? The original huge weight gain was due to treatments for endometriosis, ie caused by doctors not from overeating, and the joint damage the drugs caused then led to me exercising less.

#Endometriosis #WeightPrejudice

@ChrisMayLA6 I’m not sure what can be done, save for banging juniors over the head with a copy of Invisible Women (again).
Everyone from academics to consultants has been told that for at least 20 years, why (and where) is it not getting through?

@ChrisMayLA6 the below is related to the OP and aimed solely at the health of people, not vanity reasons or aimed at any type of person. Vanity rests more heavily on women with the expectations of what a female should be and look like.

There are so many things we can do to help reduce obesity but choose not to, i.e., banning very processed foods, very sugary foods, teaching people to cook, deal with the physcological issues around overeating and comfort eating, but instead we invent pills to undo some of the damage eating excess poor foods do to us. There was also a BBC article stating 90% of people's stomachs were being removed to "overcome" obesity. What a poor state of affairs but it seems to be sticky plasters are the modern fixing of the problem.

@ChrisMayLA6 Multiple big provocative claims in this this post. Can you support it? Are these drug prescribed based on whether the male doctor thinks the female patient would look better if they were a bit thinner? I know some people who are taking this class of drug, and I have little sense that it's a lifestyle or personal preference choice, and is heavily quality of life related.