Magic Pill

Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
Embark on this revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it, including transforming society's perspective of its dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies. Since approximately 80 percent of diets fail, weight loss medications offer desperate hope--a loss of up to one-quarter of body weight over 6 months--and importantly lowering risk of diabetes, cancer, and an early death. According to predictions, in just a few years one-quarter of the U.S. population will be taking these drugs. International leading experts--from Iceland to Minneapolis to Tokyo--collectively express the drug benefits are accompanied by 12 significant potential risks. Additionally, these drugs radically challenge what we think we know about shame, willpower, and healing while revealing the nature of obesity. This essential professional resource explains how the drugs work—scientifically, emotionally, and culturally. Understand how this contemporary revolution and its profound transformation upon the science and socialism of weight loss.