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Should the federal government increase access to weight loss drugs?

 








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Obesity is a worldwide pandemic that deserves a pandemic-level response. More than 42 percent of adults and nearly 20 percent of U.S. children and adolescents have obesity, a disease that can harm health. Plus, more than 30 percent of adults are overweight, which can also adversely affect health. They deserve comprehensive interventions — such as lifestyle-based therapy, medications, endoscopic procedures and surgery — to treat this disease and increase longevity, improve quality of life, reduce cancer risk and control comorbid conditions...
 




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Weight-loss drugs are not the answer to the obesity epidemic. There's a better solution.GLP-1 receptor agonists, the new class of weight-loss drugs, do indeed cause about 85 percent of users to lose weight. But many also get side effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, gallbladder problems and gastroesophageal reflux. And most never reach the weight they are looking for; frustratingly, they plateau. Half quit within a year. By two years, the figure is 70 percent, and the lost weight soon returns.









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