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Thomas Freer on Obesity in America

Obesity in America

Claims and stances

0:00 Thomas Freer strongly opposes: Obesity rates in the United States are rapidly declining primarily due to the widespread use of weight loss medications like Ozempic.
0:31 Thomas Freer strongly supports: Socioeconomic factors, specifically the existence of food deserts in low-income areas, are a significant driver of obesity that are currently being overlooked in the discussion.

Transcript

0:00 You know what Luca, those are all great points you bring up.
0:03 And I think that one thing people are really um not looking into is the potential long-term effects of some of these drugs like Ozempic.
0:12 Um they've become so popular recently, obviously helping to drive down obesity rates in the US, which is great in terms of the health of our population, but you know this is this drug is pretty new.
0:23 If there's serious long-term effects, this could be affecting millions of people down the line, and we're just not totally sure what's going on there.
0:31 And one more thing you brought up about um you know higher obesity rates and food desert locations and lower income areas, and I think that's even more interesting because those those um areas obviously are not gonna have as much access to the Ozempic and other drugs because they're so extremely expensive.
0:52 So that's just another another limitation to um to um affecting the health of of those areas.