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Ozempic is a Bomb

Ozempic is a Bomb

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Virginia Heffernan
Nov 10, 2023
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Earlier this year, I got to be on a Brooklyn-local fitness podcast, the Busy Body Podcast, talking with my friend Cadence Dubus about the O-word. (Ugh. Ozempic.)

We discussed the perennial imperative to starve oneself small, and the hospice-y notion of medically amputating one’s appetite. Anytime a bomb goes off in the culture—and Ozempic is quite a bom…

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