The social media Ozempic pushers
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Times investigates how easy it is to buy weight loss jabs online, despite the risk of serious side effects for those of a healthy weight.
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- Poppy Koronka, Health Correspondent, The Times.
- Eleanor Hayward, Health Editor, The Times.
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| 0:40.0 | Oracle.com. Optimize. BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:46.3 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:49.6 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:53.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:56.3 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 1:00.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 1:06.1 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is theonka, came and sat down next to me in our studio and pulled out her phone. |
| 1:35.0 | So this is your Instagram? |
| 1:39.0 | It is, so I've just gone on my stories and you can see the first ad that's popped up is for |
| 1:46.0 | medical weight loss is not cheating. A 25 day trial. I mean that's good to know it's not cheating. |
| 1:52.0 | Good to know it's not cheating. Good to know it's not cheating. |
| 1:54.0 | We'll see if we can get any more. |
| 1:59.0 | How many of these are you getting a day? |
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