Doctors 'putting health at risk' prescribing 1 million anti-obesity drugs

A mixed quality article from the UK with relevance elsewhere.

There is literally no indication for these drugs. (Almost ditto for bariatric surgery.)

Of all the certainties in life, weight loss is one of them so long as Calories In, are less than Calories Out. Any other outcome is impossible.

The gross foolishness of the following comments, is that if one makes the (unnecessary) "lifestyle changes" then one should never need the drugs, which are only good for a handful of lost pounds (if any, at all).

"Dr Colin Waine, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, warned that anti-obesity drugs should only be given to patients who are taking steps to live more healthily.

He said: 'These pills are not magic bullets. You have to make lifestyle changes, such as eating more healthily and exercising more, for them to work. But they do help you to sustain these changes.

'Anti-obesity drugs are a legitimate treatment for a serious chronic disease but they should not be used to get rid of minor excesses of body fat. They are not designed to get you from a size 14 to a size 12.'"

These terrible drugs are of remarkably limited benefit and greater potential harm.