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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by jacobthesnakob on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:52PM (#46591837)
Why do we need to try anything? This comes down to individualism versus collectivism.

Besides, the logical consequence of the portion of my comment you highlighted is that the majority of GLP-1 patients will need to be on these drugs forever to maintain these benefits long-term. We have precisely one trial of 5+ years of patients taking liraglutide, and ~2 years for semaglutide. Some side effects and long-term consequences could be entirely unknown.

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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by amanaplanacanal on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:33PM (#46592339)
It's possible that there could be long term side effects that we don't know about, but given the number of people taking these drugs we would likely already have seen some indication of them. I guess we will find out!
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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by astrange on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:43PM (#46596785)
All the side effects I've seen of GLP-1s are positive, and we've had diabetes patients taking them for much longer than that.

Anyway, it's fairly obvious that discipline is not a solution to weight loss, because weight gains a) happened in lab and pet animals on the same timescales they happened to humans and b) are reversed by moving to higher altitudes.

So to be productive, you should be telling people to move to Colorado.

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Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by pixl97 on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:49PM (#46597153)
>This comes down to individualism versus collectivism.

All fun and games until it costs every individual a massive amount.

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