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Allira Potter used to be a vocal member of the Body Positivity Movement. She isn’t any more.

Allira was a fierce ‘body positivity’ advocate. Then the movement soured

Former body positivity influencers are fleeing the movement, while “skinny culture” is making an alarming comeback.

  • Nell Geraets

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Weight loss drugs like Ozempic – commonly used to manage conditions such as diabetes – have taken the world by storm.

‘Backfired’: Ozempic maker’s disastrous trial and its $US475 billion meltdown

Analysts say Novo Nordisk’s new obesity drug may be obsolete before it hits the shelves, underlining a massive fall from grace for the company behind the weight loss boom.

  • Colin Kruger
Cooking

The five things doctors wish you’d do instead of intermittent fasting

A new major review of research found no evidence to support the method as any better for weight loss than other diets.

  • Courtney Thompson
“Ozempic neck” is not a medical issue.

‘Ozempic neck’ is the latest ‘side effect’ of GLP-1s. It’s a symptom of something uglier

Such “conditions” are not medical issues. They’re a way for cosmetic surgeons to sell you something.

  • Hannah Vanderheide
Josephine Money is a dietician who specialised in eating disorders. She is treating an increasing number of clients who are either using or considering weight-loss medication

‘Watch this space’: How weight-loss drugs are triggering new eating disorders

Inappropriate prescribing and poor support are triggering anorexia in previously healthy patients taking weight-loss medications.

  • Henrietta Cook
Obese passenger

The companies that could be surprise beneficiaries of the Ozempic boom

A US investment bank is already eyeing the fuel-cost benefits for airlines of lighter passengers.

  • Chris Zappone
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Already broken your New Year’s resolution? Take this advice

It’s time to stop trying to stick to a bunch of silly, self-imposed rules.

  • Wendy Squires
A growing body of science is aiming to answer whether GLP-1 drugs can help with cancer.

What science says about how weight-loss drugs affect cancer risk

A growing body of science is aiming to answer whether GLP-1 drugs can help with one of the world’s leading causes of death: cancer.

  • Allyson Chiu
Whether you lose weight through dieting or injections is unimportant.

Say yes to these drugs. They will save your life

A skinny doctor applauded my weight loss via diet and exercise rather than drugs. I wish I’d told him to get lost. I’d have taken those drugs in a flash.

  • Jenna Price
Ozempic is one of the new class of weight-management drugs whose beneficial health effects are only maintained while patients are using it, and reversed when they cease.

Game changing weight-loss drugs need to be taken for life, or health benefits are lost

Health benefits gained from using new-generation weight-loss drugs Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are lost, and weight is regained quickly, once people stop taking the medications as the body uses biological strategies to defend itself.

  • Wendy Tuohy