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South Park will im kommenden Paramount-Special „The End of Obesity“ die Ozempic-Begeisterung persiflieren

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Die South Park-Schöpfer Trey Parker und Matt Stone werden in ihrem kommenden Special „The End of Obesity“, das am 24. Mai auf Paramount+ ausgestrahlt wird, den Ozempic-Trend persiflieren.

In den letzten Jahren haben sich immer mehr Menschen für die Einnahme des trendigen Typ-2-Diabetes-Medikaments entschieden, das es ihnen ermöglicht, problemlos Gewicht zu verlieren, mit dem sie jahrzehntelang offen zu kämpfen hatten, das jedoch noch unbekannte Langzeiteffekte wie z Pankreatitis.

„Es ist Zeit für drastische Maßnahmen, um sein Gewicht zu senken“, erklärte

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MICHAEL MOSLEY: How ultra-processed food can put your child’s mental health at risk by increasing their risk of obesity, depression and anxiety

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Here’s a quandary I think most of us share: you love the occasional treat, such as a biscuit, a brownie or a slice of cake. 

But you will also know that the shop-bought products are often packed with lots of sugar and unhealthy fats, which means eating them is going to be bad for your waistline and your blood sugar levels.

Many of them also contain additives – things such as preservatives, flavourings, emulsifiers, colourings, chemicals for carbonating, firming, bulking

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They’re linked to cancer, heart disease, diabetes – and our shocking obesity crisis. But what exactly are they and how can you avoid them? Britain’s top experts provide the definitive guide to cutting ultra-processed food from your diet

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It is a scary thought that in 1980, when I went to medical school, only one in every 14 British adults was obese. Now it is close to one in four.

We didn’t see a lot of overweight patients when I was a medical student. These days, the NHS spends millions every year reinforcing beds, building bigger scanners and even designing larger mortuary fridges.

And this is only a fraction of the many billions spent treating and managing diseases caused

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These four social media influencers were swept up by a movement that claims obesity is perfectly healthy… The tragic truth is they have all died under the age of 45

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The final videos posted to Brittany Sauer’s TikTok page make for upsetting viewing. Speaking tearfully to the camera, the 31-stone social media star, who often posted defiantly ‘body-positive’ content about how ‘hot’ she felt in certain outfits, admitted with shocking candour that she had ‘ruined her life’ with food and binge eating.

And it had left her, aged just 28, full of regrets.

Brittany had been a virtual prisoner in her own home for two years, dealing with type 2

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Why ARE so many young people suffering heart attacks? Rates have DOUBLED in a decade among some under-30s as experts insist soaring obesity rates are to blame

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Heart attacks among young people in England are on the rise, MailOnline analysis shows.

Cases in some younger age groups have almost doubled over the last decade, with rates in under-40s as whole rising by a quarter. 

Our revelation comes after the death of 29-year-old mother Lauren Page Smith, who was discovered lying on her bathroom floor with her two-year-old daughter clinging to her chest just hours after paramedics had given her the all-clear. 

Experts say the rise, which has

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Could Ozempic Derail the Body-Positivity Movement?

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The medical story about Ozempic is straightforward and satisfying. A drug designed to treat diabetes had a game-changing application for weight loss. But it has plenty of caveats: You have to take it indefinitely. It doesn’t work for everyone. It has side effects. It’s at the moment unbelievably expensive and rarely covered by insurance. But it works. People can lose a significant percentage of their body weight and keep it off—safely. In the history of spotty and dubious weight-loss drugs,

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DR PHILIPPA KAYE: Diets fail because obesity is a disease and only way to beat it is with treatment

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The patient in my treatment room – a busy working mother-of-two in her 40s, let’s call her Kelly – seemed desperate.

As her GP, I’d seen her a fair few times before – after the birth of both her boys, and every now and then for her own health problems. This time, however, she wasn’t herself at all.

Tearfully, she explained, it was her weight. Recently she’d started a new job in retail, and had been told there wasn’t a

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A wonk’s guide to the Swedish EU presidency policy agenda – POLITICO

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Sweden’s policy smorgasbord is already groaning with some chewy (and even unpalatable) items — but the Commission keeps adding more to its plate.

By this point in a five-year EU election cycle, the vast majority of new policy proposals have already arrived from the EU executive branch, and are already on their legislative journey. But as Sweden takes over the rotating Council presidency with a year-and-a-half left until the next European election, that’s not the case.

With massive official bandwith

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NHS shake-up to tackle cancer, obesity, mental health and addiction crises

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Rishi Sunak has declared war on cancer, obesity, mental health and addiction with a blueprint inspired by the Covid vaccine rollout.

The Prime Minister today announced more than £113million in funding for research into cutting-edge treatments and technologies with the aim of encouraging breakthroughs and saving billions of pounds.

Each ‘healthcare mission’ will be led by an independent expert, chosen by a panel including Dame Kate Bingham who headed the vaccine taskforce.

Ministers believe tackling the key challenges in each

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Confronting the world’s number one killer: cardiovascular disease – POLITICO

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) — often regarded as the ‘silent pandemic’ — is the leading cause of death worldwide. In 2019 alone, it was responsible for 18.6 million deaths.

The same year marked the beginnings of the COVID-19 crisis, which revealed profound deficits and inequities in our health care policies and systems. Hospitals were not only overrun and under-resourced, but the prevention, screening and treatment of non-communicable diseases were also disrupted.2 This daunting global crisis, however, revealed something else: our

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