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exboyfil

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15. Just waiting for the time the citizens wake up to Big Agra and corn

Reply to NCIndie (Reply #8)

Thu Nov 2, 2023, 11:29 AM

Nov 2023

High fructose corn syrup is one of the worst things you can consume, and it is in so many processed foods.

I joke that Chinese food places have closed because of Keto. We had a place we went to for years. It closed about six months after I started Keto.

My wife takes a similar drug for her diabetes. She has dropped nearly 20 pounds in a year. Her sweet cravings are definitely reduced. The drug has helped with her A1C (when she was half dosing her A1C went up from 7.4 to 9.2 - f_ck the insurance companies who wouldn't pay for a second pen when her dosage amount pen wasn't available because everyone was taking the drug for weight loss).

Food can be as addictive as other drugs. An example is when my wife panicked when she thought she couldn't get her McD breakfast sandwich.

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" Krispy Kreme shares fell this week over worries that weight loss drugs will shrink demand for donuts" [View all] brooklynite Nov 2023 OP

Apparently people are getting the message... Historic NY Nov 2023 #1

If a drug helps you lose weight, wouldn't you eat MORE donuts? leftstreet Nov 2023 #2

These drugs work by suppressing appetite, not by reducing absorption, so no. hlthe2b Nov 2023 #5

Oh. Rats n/t leftstreet Nov 2023 #7

Not if the drug made you extremely nauseus every time you ate anything with sugar. NCIndie Nov 2023 #6

Many do experience nausea and in worst cases, gastroparesis (shutdown of stomach/intestinal hlthe2b Nov 2023 #10

My guess is that nearly all will come to regret it. NCIndie Nov 2023 #12

Some of us remember the so-called Fen-Phen disaster. Perhaps you might remind her. hlthe2b Nov 2023 #16

This shows you how completely business controls you for profit-even if Stargazer99 Nov 2023 #3

Not sure how you twisted a drop in shares into your take. NCIndie Nov 2023 #8

Just waiting for the time the citizens wake up to Big Agra and corn exboyfil Nov 2023 #15

And my Keto doctor struggles to get paid by the insurance companies exboyfil Nov 2023 #18

I've never been forced to eat unhealthy foods Zeitghost Nov 2023 #20

It decreases the desire to drink alcohol, too, but I don't see the "spirits" or beer/wine industry hlthe2b Nov 2023 #4

It's not Ozempic. It's the prices. dchill Nov 2023 #9

Yeah. The potato chip people don't seem worried leftstreet Nov 2023 #11

"Unfair. Whine. This is because libs are out to get me. Whine. So unfair." - Republican Leader Windicator Nov 2023 #13

Judging by the line at Krispy Kreme every time I go, it hasn't killed sales yet ms liberty Nov 2023 #14

I work with a guy that would grab 4 at a time. louis-t Nov 2023 #19

I thought this was going to be from The Onion. niyad Nov 2023 #17