Finally-- A Clinically-Proven Way to Lose Weight. Now what?

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TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Felix, Mihir and The Economist’s Charlotte Howard debate the merits of a new class of weight-loss drugs that drastically lower a person’s weight. Is this incredible scientific advance the solution to the obesity epidemic that is sweeping the planet? Should health insurance companies cover the pricey drugs? Will obesity become even more prevalent now that we have effective medication? Plus, we discuss the roller coaster that is Moderna. What’s next for one of the pandemic’s biggest winners? Is there a life post generous government support?

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0:00.0	I would like to tell you about a great new show from Ted called Fixable.
0:11.1	It's hosted by a colleague of mine, Harvard Business School Professor Francis Fry and
0:15.8	her wife, Leadership Coach Anne Morris.
0:19.1	On Fixable, they talk to listeners about workplace issues and give advice what's helped solve
0:24.5	these kinds of problems at some of the world's largest companies.
0:28.8	For France as an Anne, no problem is too big or too small.
0:33.6	Find Fixable wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:38.8	Hello everyone, you're listening to After Hours, I'm Felix.
0:50.1	I'm me here.
0:51.1	I'm Charlotte.
0:52.1	Charlotte Howard's back.
0:53.1	Welcome back Charlotte.
0:54.1	Thank you.
0:55.1	It's good to be back.
0:56.1	It's wonderful to have you.
0:57.1	Edward, you moved to new offices with the economist?
1:00.8	Yeah, we just moved to 54th and 3rd and everyone talks about the death of Midtown in particular
1:07.8	Midtown East.
1:08.8	But I have to say that I have been struck by the opportunities created by some businesses
1:15.2	dying and some new businesses coming in.
1:17.4	So right nearby we have this food court that opened in the bottom of the city group building
1:22.4	that should for all intensive purposes really be a wasteland.
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