{"id":2390,"date":"2024-03-19T00:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T01:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2024-03-19T02:39:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T02:39:43","slug":"oprah-takes-on-weight-stigma-in-the-ozempic-era-in-new-weight-loss-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2390","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Takes on Weight Stigma in the Ozempic Era in New Weight Loss Special"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a new special, Ms. Winfrey highlighted how new drugs have changed the way we talk about weight and willpower.<\/p>\n

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Oprah Winfrey, a longtime figure in the national conversation about dieting and weight bias, devoted an hourlong prime-time special on Monday to the rise of weight loss drugs. Her goal, she said, was to \u201cstart releasing the stigma and the shame and the judgment\u201d around weight and weight loss \u2014 starting with her own, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 25 years, making fun of my weight was national sport,\u201d Ms. Winfrey said in the show, titled \u201cAn Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shame has become a focal point in that conversation as new drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro, which are widely used for weight loss, shift how people think about treating obesity. When Ms. Winfrey disclosed in December<\/a> that she was taking a medication to manage her weight, she said she was \u201cdone with the shaming\u201d that had followed her through decades of dieting.<\/p>\n

Many patients who start taking these medications say they have felt shamed for struggling with their weight, and then shamed for taking weight loss drugs, said Dr. Michelle Hauser, the obesity medicine director of the Stanford Lifestyle and Weight Management Center, who was not involved with the special.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cPeople just are constantly getting this message, both internal bias and then external bias from other people,\u201d she said. Some might think, \u201c\u2018I shouldn\u2019t have to rely on medication, I shouldn\u2019t be dependent on them,\u2019\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Dr. Hauser tells patients to instead ask themselves: \u201cWould you tell someone that about their blood pressure medication?\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a new special, Ms. Winfrey highlighted how new drugs have changed the way we talk about weight and willpower.Oprah Winfrey, a longtime figure in the national conversation about dieting and weight bias, devoted an hourlong prime-time special on Monday to the rise of weight loss drugs. Her goal, she said, was to \u201cstart releasing the stigma and the shame and the judgment\u201d around weight and weight loss \u2014 starting with her own, she said.\u201cFor 25 years, making fun of my weight was national sport,\u201d Ms. Winfrey said in the show, titled \u201cAn Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution.\u201dShame has become a focal point in that conversation as new drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro, which are widely used for weight loss, shift how people think about treating obesity. When Ms. Winfrey disclosed in December that she was taking a medication to manage her weight, she said she was \u201cdone with the shaming\u201d that had followed her through decades of dieting.Many patients who start taking these medications say they have felt shamed for struggling with their weight, and then shamed for taking weight loss drugs, said Dr. Michelle Hauser, the obesity medicine director of the Stanford Lifestyle and Weight Management Center, who was not involved with the special.\u201cPeople just are constantly getting this message, both internal bias and then external bias from other people,\u201d she said. Some might think, \u201c\u2018I shouldn\u2019t have to rely on medication, I shouldn\u2019t be dependent on them,\u2019\u201d she added.Dr. Hauser tells patients to instead ask themselves: \u201cWould you tell someone that about their blood pressure medication?\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2392,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}