What are the odds this panel of “experts” is going to unanimously endorse the use of Ozempic for weight loss with a minimal, tangential nod to the side effects — brief enough to not arouse the suspicions of the fat marks yet just long enough to maintain the façade of objectivity and medical ethics (you know, the antiquated “first do no harm” maxim, as irrelevant today as informed consent).
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Via Variety (emphasis added):
Oprah Winfrey has set an hour-long ABC primetime special about weight loss drugs following her exit from the board of WeightWatchers after revealing her personal use of them. The special, titled “An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution,” will air later this month. Oprah recorded the special in front of a live studio audience and gathers medial experts to discuss weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy.
Done with one scam (WeightWatchers), on to the next, huh?
Here’s advice that doesn’t come with the low, low price tag of $43 for the first month:
- Exercise a modicum of self-discipline; commit to something and see it through
- Ditch processed food, swapped for whole foods
- Ditch seed oils
- Ditch added sugar
- Ditch the fast food
- Limit carb intake to less than 100 grams/day (ideally getting into ketosis for extended period, consuming under 20 grams of net carbs daily)
- Get that flab churning on the track or the sidewalk or wherever
- Take the stairs
…And you’re done. There is literally no one on Earth who will not lose weight with that formula and keep it off as long as they keep it up.
But the multinational agri-corporations, pharmaceutical corporations, the medical industry, nor WeightWatchers stand to profit off of any of that advice, so you’re not going to hear it from Oprah Winfrey.
Continuing:
“It is a very personal topic for me and for the hundreds of millions of people impacted around the globe who have for years struggled with weight and obesity,” said Oprah in a statement. “This special will bring together medical experts, leaders in the space and people in the day-to-day struggle to talk about health equity and obesity with the intention to ultimately release the shame, judgment and stigma surrounding weight.”
Wrong! Judgment and stigma are absolutely healthy and necessary things in regard to practices and lifestyles that deserve judgment and stigma. Shame is a little sketchier in terms of producing positive social outcomes, but I’m not going to toss shame aside as a tactic either. These are “safe and effective” tools, as it were, for promoting healthy habits.
Continuing:
The medical experts featured in the primetime special are Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. W. Scott Butsch, ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News medical correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Dr. Amanda Velazquez. Oprah will also interview patients from around the country who used weight loss medications. Questions addressed in the special include: Who are the medications really intended for? Who is eligible to receive weight loss drugs? What are the short-term and long-term side-effects?
I have previously written at PJ Media about one Dr. Jennifer Ashton, who is at least (unlike Dr. Jill) an actual doctor, but nonetheless a shameless COVID vax propagandist posing as an unbiased medical doctor do-gooder on set to deliver facts to patients. I would swallow her Ozempic advice with an enormous grain of salt, but that’s just me; I’m a filthy “conspiracy theorist.”
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