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It does seem notable that the American obesity rate dropped from 42% -> 40% this year. America shall surely fund some truly grand bike lanes in Copenhagen.
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Very mixed on this. On the one hand, it's good to have something that helps modify your body or allow medically necessary weight loss. On the other, hard not to think that this won't be forced on overweight people as a social expectation despite being privatized.
Portions got smaller to deal with inflation. I saw a lot of that over the past few years.
They already have plenty though. The Danes gave us Ozempic, now they need to teach America the art of good bike infrastructure and reliable, clean public transit
I’m on Wegovy because of my autoimmune disease and the extreme damage it’s done to my body. For some reason, it’s helping some of those symptoms. I still have severe rheumatoid arthritis and I’m sometimes in the apartment for days since my meds aren’t 100%, but I’m happy
Would be interesting to know what the effect had been on spending a similar amount on bike lanes in the US. Anyway, we thank you for your contribution to our socialist Utopia.
NGL, attended a very nice, totally free, microbiology conference in Copenhagen recently. PhD students even got their travel costs funded. Courtesy of you know who.
Oh, it’s going to be bigger than that: a sovereign wealth fund, tax cuts, possibly a national plan to make fully high-speed the national rail network. Heck, the budget surplus is around-about the 3% mark already!
So obesity has dropped but food costs less than ever? Not saying it can’t occur, but that seems irregular. All the OCD eaters in the world will tend to keep the weight on until they’re too sick for even that to happen.
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