Obesity and weight loss shots: Dariush Mozaffarian and Andrew Greenberg offer their views in Boston Globe article
Weight-loss shots are here. So who needs a healthy diet?
Fitness crazes and meal fads haven’t stopped us from getting fatter and fatter. But new drugs bring new problems.
In 1980, the obesity rate in the US hovered around 13 percent, not far from where it had been 20 years earlier.
But sometime during the ’80s, we began hurtling towards this moment.