Some companies are marketing GLP-1 drugs to body-positive influencers in hopes of promoting their products to their followers.
Shane O’Neill is a style reporter for the Post. I am writing the Style Memo Newsletter.. When asked about this marketing push, he said: We reached out to some of these influencers and activists to get their opinions on whether their messages contained these drugs..
At the same time, many doctors are busy responding to questions from patients who are interested in taking these drugs to lose weight. Mara Gordon is a physician in New Jersey. Trying to eliminate weight stigma by implementing a size-aware medical approach – That is, she does not offer these drugs for weight loss. She doesn’t think these drugs will cure fatphobia.There, she talks with patients about their goals and tries to derive solutions from weight loss.
“Say you have a patient who says they don’t have diabetes but want to lose weight. So we try to find out – what are you hoping to achieve? Related to your body size So, what is it about your life that makes you feel uncomfortable?”
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