Opinion: If you don’t know what ‘food noise’ is, you don’t need Ozempic

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If enduring weekly injections, nausea and potential muscle loss seems better than being fat, something other than personal choice is at play

The hype surrounding the drugs such as Ozempic takes the focus off the ultra-processed foods that are slowly destroying our health while thickening our waistlines. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images

How about we ease off on judgment of anyone using the latest class of weight-loss drugs for not strictly medical reasons? Ultra-processed foods are as damaging to some people’s health as tobacco. Just as some people can smoke and never get cancer, some people can indulge in ultra-processed foods and never get fatUltra-processed foods are as damaging to some people’s health as tobacco. Just as some people can smoke and never get cancer, some people can indulge in ultra-processed foods and never get fat. But for others, they start the relentless scream of food noise.

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