Widespread use of Ozempic for weight loss could change how we view fatness

from Don’t Call Me Resilient · host Vinita Srivastava

It seems like everyone you talk to has considered taking Ozempic, the drug originally created as a diabetes treatment, but now being used as a weight-loss method.Ever since it arrived in Canada, it’s been in incredibly high demand.While Ozempic may be just the next in a long line of get-thin-quick fads, the drug’s shortages have disproportionate impacts on racialized communities. So do the weight-loss goals that undergird those shortages.

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In this episode of Don't Call Me Resilient, we are joined by fat and disability studies professor Fady Shanouda, who examines anti-fat bias in medicine. As the use of Ozempic, a drug for diabetes, slams into the mainstream as a weight-loss method, will the drug’s use impact our concept of fatness? And how does fatness intersect with race and class?

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