Coming from this article (HN comments):
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy
Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
Within six months of starting a GLP-1 medication, households reduce grocery spending by an average of 5.3%. Among higher-income households, the drop is even steeper, at more than 8%. Spending at fast-food restaurants, coffee shops and other limited-service eateries falls by about 8%.
That seems huge to me. There’s lots of memes about bad food practices in the US and there’s a lot of truth to it. In 10 years, will there be a stereotype of Americans as skinny people that don’t eat much?
I don’t have a link but I’ve seen that companies are pushing back on this, like researching how to make drinks that counteract GLP-1 drugs. Will Big Pharma or Big Sugar win out?
High doubtful (read: no way).
Unless you just mean “reduce grocery spending”, in which case still no, as food prices are rising so rapidly that at some point it will definitely eclipse the reduction trends, if it has not done so already.
It could help though, as part of an overall regimen to change the way that we think about food? Except that I suspect that most people are simply being lazy at wanting quick fixes.
Hit the gym folks: when you see how hard it is to burn off a numbered amount of calories, it will provide the necessary context to suddenly understand what those numbers mean, and thereby help with the incentive to aim for better health rather than merely feeling a full sensation.
People don’t do that. You’ll never get that to happen at scale. If it’s possible to reduce consumption and improve health across a population with a pill why wouldn’t you?
Um… because it’s only a quick “fix” that offers its own plethora of side-effects and does nothing to alter the underlying causes of… Oh, yeah, right, nevermind, lazy hive-mind consumption culture go brrrr. 🍕💊🎂🍰🧁😋