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The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

Book by Johann Hari

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In "The Magic Pill," Johann Hari takes readers on a deeply personal and rigorously researched journey into the complex world of obesity and the revolutionary new weight-loss drugs that promise to fight it, grappling with the profound ethical, societal, and scientific questions they raise about our relationship with food, health, and the future of our bodies.

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"Your Biology Is, In Effect, 24/7"

"The body's tendency to hold on to what we have [is] a brilliant survival strategy...Evolution could never have anticipated that we would have an abundance of energy [dense food] all the time. The system was designed for one environment that took millions of years to create, and now it's trying to cope with a radically different environment... Of course, that's really bad news for individuals with obesity, because they're fighting their biology, and their biology is, in effect, 24/7."

- Michael Lowe, hunger and obesity researcher, on how weight loss triggers biological backlash that relentlessly drives weight regain

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