{"id":2023565,"date":"2023-09-06T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-rogan-and-bill-maher-call-out-ozempic-as-false-cure-to-american-obesity-crisis\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:30:41","slug":"joe-rogan-and-bill-maher-call-out-ozempic-as-false-cure-to-american-obesity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-rogan-and-bill-maher-call-out-ozempic-as-false-cure-to-american-obesity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan and Bill Maher expose Ozempic as a fake solution to US obesity problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-rogan-and-bill-maher-call-out-ozempic-as-false-cure-to-american-obesity-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023565&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Bill Maher and Joe Rogan Slam\u2063 Weight-Loss \u2063Craze<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bill Maher and Joe \u2063Rogan slammed the latest weight-loss craze\u2062 to sweep a desperately obese nation as a vehicle for Wall Street profits over metabolic health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have given up on the idea that \u2062obesity is something that\u200c can\u200b be contained by\u200c exercise and diet,\u201d Maher said on Saturday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s now a disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Problem with \u2064Ozempic<\/h3>\n<p>The HBO comedian went on to highlight the public fixation on Ozempic, the name-brand Type 2 diabetes medication for semaglutide being prescribed off-label \u2063to help patients \u200blose weight. According to \u200cthe Centers for\u200c Disease Control (CDC), nearly \u200d42 percent of American adults are \u200dobese.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was\u200c reading about\u2063 Ozempic,\u201d Maher said. \u201cThey have zero clue why it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pcWeT-eI8hY?si=5XfX2JTgfs9uzCi8&#038;enablejsapi=1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Maher didn\u2019t name the story, but a piece from The New\u200d York Times in August outlined how medical professionals do not have clear answers surrounding the apparent success of new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawaii-fire-firefighters-contain-100-of-one-fire-in-west-maui-as-death-toll-rises-to-80\/\" title=\"Hawaii fire: One fire in West Maui fully contained as death toll reaches 80.\">weight \u200bloss drugs<\/a> such as Ozempic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, much about the \u2063drugs remains shrouded in \u200bmystery,\u201d The Times reported. \u201cResearchers discovered by \u2062accident that exposing the brain to a natural hormone at levels never seen in nature \u200delicited weight loss. They really\u200b don\u2019t know why, or if the drugs\u2063 may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chelsea-clinton-appears-to-call-on-facebook-to-ban-tucker-carlson-post\/\" title=\"Chelsea Clinton Appears To Call On Facebook To Ban Tucker Carlson Post\">long-term side effects<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Dark Side of Ozempic<\/h3>\n<p>Side effects listed on Ozempic\u2019s website include nausea, stomach pain, and\u2062 constipation. The Cut \u200cran a feature \u200dlast\u200c fall on the dark side of Ozempic\u2019s commercial success with the headline, \u201cYou Might Go Through Hell for You Post-Ozempic Body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sudeep Singh,\u2062 a medical director at a concierge medical practice in Miami, told the magazine about half his patients prescribed the medicine experience gastrointestinal side effects. Yet Ozempic remains \u201cthe most common medication that I get asked about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody knows. Everyone\u2019s asking about it. My mom\u2019s asking.\u200d My\u2064 neighbors are \u2063asking about \u2062it. The news is out,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n<h3>The Profitable Mystery<\/h3>\n<p>The \u200cdrugs\u2019 blockbuster success has driven profits so high that The \u2063New York Times wrote\u2064 another story in August\u200c about how it is \u201creshaping Denmark\u2019s\u200d economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey \u200bknow that it\u2063 works, just not why,\u201d Maher\u2063 said on Rogan\u2019s program. \u201cThis would bother me \u2063\u2026 that if they\u2019re\u200c giving me something and they\u2019re like \u2018ok, this\u2064 new miracle pill, just \u200ctake it. We\u2019re working on the reason why it might do this to you, but until \u2063then, just f-ck \u200dit.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogan\u200b responded\u2063 by noting there is \u201cno biological free lunch either\u201d when\u200c it\u2064 comes to weight loss. The host \u200ccited research from Dr. Peter Attia, \u2062the author of\u200b a book on aging published in March, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-rogan-and-bill-maher-call-out-ozempic-as-false-cure-to-american-obesity-crisis\/\" title=\"Joe Rogan and Bill Maher expose Ozempic as a fake solution to US obesity problem.\">found popular weight-loss drugs eroded lean muscle mass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re taking an injection \u2062that makes you less hungry, something\u2019s going on that\u2019s probably not good,\u201d Rogan said.<\/p>\n<p>A May report from The Wall Street Journal \u200dnoted patients who \u2064quit taking Ozempic often see their weight go back up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatient testimonies have focused not only on the dramatic effect on their waistlines, but also on how\u2063 quickly many seem to pack the pounds back on if they stop taking the injections,\u201d the \u2063report read. \u201cThat \u2062may not be ideal for patients, but for Wall Street it is\u2062 a feature rather\u2064 than a bug.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Obesity as a\u200b Disease<\/h3>\n<p>In \u2064other words, Ozempic is a lucrative and permanent treatment for a curable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Maher went on to complain \u200babout \u2064the knee-jerk effort by\u200c the corporate press to declare obesity a disease on its own rather than a symptom of a toxic diet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou \u200dcannot find\u200d an article on the front-page\u2063 or\u2062 in\u2063 the op-ed page of the New York Times in the last couple years that has any other belief\u2064 than this one,\u201d Maher said, \u201cthat \u2064it is \u2063a disease, it is \u2063not within a person\u2019s control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reason for that lies in the American Medical Association\u2019s (AMA) designation of\u2062 obesity as a disease in 2013. Since\u2063 then, journalists have \u200bbeen advised by groups such\u2062 as\u200c the Obesity Action\u2064 Coalition to recharacterize obese people in stories as individuals \u200bwith \u201cexcess weight\u201d instead of\u2063 \u201cseverely obese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guidelines from the Obesity Action\u2062 Coalition \u200dencourage reporters to \u201cnot\u200b place an unnecessary\u200b or distorted emphasis on body weight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery often, media coverage of obesity is biased with an over-emphasis on \u200bindividual responsibility, ignoring important societal, economic, biological, and environmental contributors of\u200b obesity,\u201d the guidelines\u200d read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifty years ago, we looked like completely \u2063different people,\u201d Maher said. \u201cIn 50 years, did we evolve?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogan blamed the \u2063obesity epidemic on \u200ddecades of \u2062diet\u2063 changes engineered by the food industry to encourage the consumption of ultra-processed \u200bproducts with the help of government subsidies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/14\/no-subsidies-for-big-food-is-the-only-based-position\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No Subsidies For Big\u200c Food Is The Only \u2018Based\u2019 Position<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sugar\u200b industry paid off \u2064scientists to put the blame on saturated fat,\u201d Rogan said, which \u201cchanged peoples\u2019 eating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Food \u2064and Drug \u200cAdministration\u200d (FDA) proposed an update to the agency\u2019s\u2062 definition of \u201chealthy,\u201d which would promote\u200d foods such\u200b as salmon with higher amounts \u200dof saturated\u2062 fat \u200dover ultra-processed cereals. Major food manufacturers behind Fruity Pebbles, Froot Loops, \u200band Lucky Charms have responded with litigation threats \u200cto keep the \u201chealthy\u201d label on boxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood\u200d companies,\u201d Maher noted, \u201chave labs where they go in and test\u2062 how much fat, sugar, and salt we can put in this thing to make it as addictive as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, sugar, a primary ingredient in cereals advertised to children, was found in a 2007 study to be more rewarding than cocaine.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher and Joe Rogan criticized the weight-loss trend, calling it a profit-driven scheme benefiting Wall Street rather than promoting metabolic health. 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