The Ozempic Olympics

What do you make of the suggestion by low IQ Labour Health Minister Wes Streeting that unemployed people living with obesity could be given new weight loss jabs to help them get back into work?

For starters, no one “lives with obesity” - people eat too much of the wrong stuff and exercise too little, that’s it. It is a lifestyle choice in many cases.

Wes Streeting suggested the latest generation of medicines including Ozempic and Mounjaro could be "lifechanging" for individuals and would ease pressure on the NHS.

"Our widening waistbands are also placing significant burden on our health service. The long-term benefits of these drugs could be monumental in our approach to tackling obesity."

So Labour thinks that the unemployed can’t work because they are fat and lazy?

Really?

More worrying is the noted fact that there are concerns that these new “miracle” Weight loss jabs which include;

• 9.09 times greater risk of pancreatitis

• 4.22 times greater risk of bowel obstruction

• 3.67 times greater risk of gastroparesis (which means you can barely eat because the stomach is constantly full—and in many cases after Ozempic, ends up being permanent)

• 1.48 times greater risk of biliary disease (e.g., painful gallstones)

Oh, and then there is the fact that once most people STOP taking the jabs, they put back all the weight that they lost. So, it’s best if they stay on the jabs for life.

This is a nice earner for Big Pharma.