31% of Australians are obese – is Ozempic a healthy solution? A GP considers Johann Hari’s inside take on a ‘mass experiment’

  • Written by: Natasha Yates, General Practitioner, PhD Candidate, Bond University
31% of Australians are obese – is Ozempic a healthy solution? A GP considers Johann Hari’s inside take on a ‘mass experiment’Julia Larson/Pexels

Obesity levels for adults have hit 26% in Britain and 42.5% in the United States, journalist Johann Hari writes in his new book, Magic Pill. In Australia, recent data shows we’re somewhere in the middle: 31%.

Hari, who grew up eating “almost nothing but junk and processed food”, describes himself as ranging from...

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