Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast in which we will

assess the impacts of the new diet drugs on physical and mental health in the context of our unhealthy food system and societal fat

phobia. Sources on our front page today include the gray area, Today Explained, Consider This, What the Actual Fork, and

the majority report.

Then in the additional sections half of the show, we'll dive deeper into The business of desire, bias and risk, and body

neutrality.

Let's start with the basics here. What is O's Embic for people who don't really know

anything about it? I remember the exact moment I asked this question for myself.

It was the winter of 2022 and it was the end of the

pandemic and I got invited to a party for the first time in all those months and I decided

to go and in the Uber on the way there I was feeling

a bit self-conscious because I gained loads away so I was going to a party that was

thrown by an Oscar winning actor I'm not saying this just a name drop it's

relevant I suddenly thought this is going to be fascinating because

everyone I know gained weight it's going to be so interesting to see these actors

kind of looking different right with a bit of podge on them.

And I arrived, and it's not just that they hadn't gained way,

everyone was gaunt, everyone was thin.

And I was kind of wandering around in a bit of a day,

and I bumped into a friend of mine and I said to her wow looks

like everyone really did take up Palatas during lockdown and she laughed at me and I

said what are you laughing at and she said well you know it's not Pilates right and she

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