Oprah's Done with the Shame. The New Weight Loss Drugs.

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

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Americans are increasingly using drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro to lose weight. And they got a big endorsement last week when Oprah Winfrey announced that she, too was using weight loss drugs.

And it's not just Oprah, the decades-old weight management company Weight Watchers is also embracing the drugs, integrating them into the business model.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Weight Watchers CEO Sima Sistani about the company's decision, and talks to NPR consumer health correspondent Yuki Noguchi about what is known and unknown about these drugs.

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0:00.0	Oprah Winfrey, a woman so powerful, so influential, there's no need to use her last name.
0:13.0	She's simply Oprah.
0:15.0	And during the more than two decades that her talk show was on the air,
0:18.0	Oprah became firmly woven into the fabric of America.
0:22.0	Open your boxes.
0:23.0	One, two, three.
0:25.0	You get a car, you get a car, you get a car,
0:28.0	you get a car, you get a car, you get a car, you get a car,
0:30.0	you get a car, you get a car, you can. Throughout those two decades and beyond,
0:32.0	another thing about Oprah was firmly woven into the cultural fabric,
0:36.2	her relationship with weight, and everyone, including comedian Joan Rivers, felt comfortable commenting on it.
0:43.0	But you went into beauty contest, they told me your beauty contest winner.
0:46.0	Yeah, I'm a little.
0:47.0	50 pounds ago or so.
0:48.0	Yeah, but, so what did you win?
0:49.0	Well, I won the Miss Fire prevention contest.
0:51.0	Was that a who?
0:52.0	What? Fire prevention.
0:52.8	So how'd you gain the weight?
0:54.8	I ate a lot.
0:55.8	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you said 50 pounds.
1:00.2	You shouldn't let that happen to you're very pretty.
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