13 November

4 decades of moralising against fat people and telling them they just need to count calories and go to the gym led to precisely nothing. The problem actually got worse. That’s because we hadn’t got to the root cause of obesity. These new drugs are targeting a root cause. Nobody fully understands the root cause yet, but these drugs are in the space of where that solution lies. Being fat has never been about calories or exercise. That’s just drivel gyms use to drum up customers.