America’s Obsession with Weight-Loss Drugs Is Affecting the Economy of Denmark

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Reminds me a bit of the Covid-Vaccine from Biontech. The small (220K inhabitants) City of Mainz was able to pay all it&#x27;s debts within one year just due to the Taxes paid by them. And it shifted the state of Rheinland-Pfalz from receiver to giver ob subsidies to other states.

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Billions in sales in an economy of $400B per year is affecting the economy?<p>I would assume that things like energy costs would have a far bigger impact.

We see the problem of coincidence of wants here with regard to currency transfers, and the real effects of attempting to alleviate it. National currencies just don&#x27;t make sense in a globalized economy.

Paywalled, but I recently listened to one of the vegan doctors (I think it was McDougall) talking about these. It’s pretty crazy stuff.<p>Also, as an aside, it’s amazing to me the lengths to which people will go simply to avoid changing their habits.<p>My endocrinologist has plant-based diet material all over her office. She tells her patients that she’d be out of a job if everyone would eat a healthy (McDougall, Gregor, etc) plant-based diet. Almost none of her patients follow her dietary advice.

Nothing more american than self-medication using drugs that should be for diabetics, leading to both diabetics ending up in life threatening conditions because of a lack of said medicine, as well as a high likelihood of suicidal thoughts and self harm coming from the use of said medicine (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ema.europa.eu&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;ema-statement-ongoing-review-glp-1-receptor-agonists" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ema.europa.eu&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;ema-statement-ongoing-revi...</a>)<p>Watch as how, miraculously, every famous actor, singer, public personality that was overweight suddenly got thin because they decided to just &quot;start exercising&quot; a year ago, exactly as the time where Semaglutide&#x27;s effects were starting to be known.