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Chasing Life

Body Neutrality with Jameela Jamil

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.47.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to optimizing our mental and physical health, many of us focus on managing our weight and metabolic function. But what happens when the numbers are good but the way we feel about our bodies is bad? Should we be striving to love the way we look? Or is it better to not think about our bodies at all? Actress and activist, Jameela Jamil thinks a lot about health, food and diet culture. After years of struggling with anorexia, “The Good Place,” star tells Sanjay why she thinks food, mental health, and body image are intertwined. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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England only. A few days ahead of this year's Oscar ceremony, a drug manufacturer released an ad I was not expecting to see.

0:37.0

Some people have been using medicine, never meant for them.

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For the smaller dress or tucks for a big night.

0:47.0

Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company that makes Monjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for weight loss,

0:54.0

was discouraging the use of anti-obicity medications for cosmetic weight loss.

0:59.0

Some said that this ad, which was titled Big Night,

1:02.0

was targeting celebrities and others who take the drugs, but don't really need them.

1:07.0

Either way, I got to say it ended on a pretty powerful note.

1:11.0

People whose health is affected by obesity are the reason we work on these medications.

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It matters who gets them.

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Now to be honest, I'm not sure how effective an ad like this really is, but the message did

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make sense to me.

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Demand for these medications has outpaced supply, so they end up being unavailable to people who actually do need them and have prescriptions

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for them.

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But I got to say, not everyone was impressed with the ad, including my guest today.

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