Wholefood Is a Budget Alternative to Ozempic for Weight Loss, Social Media Finds
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A BBC article explores whether a 'Wholefoods diet' can be a budget alternative to Ozempic for weight loss, sparking discussion on the efficacy and safety of such alternatives.
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Just a few days ago, in a TV show about the car industry in France, a car dealer was mocking the rednecks who came to buy new cars despite eating wholefood.
Now this article describes how social media find wholefood can be a cheaper alternative to Ozempic for weight loss, when you are otherwise healthy and don't need it as a prescription.
A nutritionist finds that YES IT IS and his peers have been telling that for decades.
I love that part in particular :
``` Ultimately, a diet that encourages natural production of GLP-1 diet is full of whole foods, including fruit, vegetables, legumes and nuts, says Damman. That people could be discovering this by attempting to mimic the effects of weight-loss drugs is an irony not lost on some nutritional scientists, including Damman.
"The journey has come full-circle," he says. "All roads lead back to eating whole foods – there's no substitute for them." ```
Why do people consume and eat according to their income, instead of caring about their health ? Do they think high income earners are a different bread ?
Why do many cultures with common poverty have obese wealthy people? Why did wealthy Victorian guys get tiny wives not able to do physical labour? Why does wealth correlate with vegetarianism in India? As usual "because we live in a society" and because people like to show off sometimes.
Also practically, it's way easier to eat healthy food when you're not worried about the cost.
The social dimension can easily dominate the health dimension of food consumption.
We need to speech a business of having pressurised high tech greenhouses to grow healthy and taste-neutral "golden apples" in otherwise bare land, to sell that as much as you can to anyone who doesn't know what to cook. I'm sure we could get VC to invest