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The Jordan Harbinger Show

993: Johann Hari | The Skinny on 'Magic Pill' Weight-Loss Drugs

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Are new weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy "magic" pills that can put an end to the obesity epidemic? Johann Hari is here to give us the skinny!

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He took away the American diet and left them with nothing but the healthy food again.

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And he was pretty sure he knew what would happen.

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They would eat more of the healthy food than they had before,

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and this would prove that that kind of diet expands the number of calories you eat in a day.

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What happened was much weirder.

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Once they've been exposed to the American diet, they refused to eat the healthy food at all.

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It was like they no longer recognized it as food.

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It was only when they were literally starving and wasting away

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that they finally reluctantly went back and ate it. Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the

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