With drugs like Ozempic having recently entered the public mind, and seemingly having a hugely positive impact on people’s lives. There has been talk of obese and overweight people being prescribed Ozempic in order to get them back into the workforce.
To try to ascertain whether this is sensible, we went out into Manchester to ask people on the street what they thought.
To try to ascertain whether this is sensible, we went out into Manchester to ask people on the street what they thought.
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00:00Now a Zempik may be a drug that you've heard of and since it entered the public consciousness
00:03it's been at the centre of a lot of conversations about weight and now there are talks that
00:08it may be used on obese or clinically overweight people to help them return to the workforce,
00:12both giving the workforce a boost and saving the NHS precious resources. So we're going
00:16to ask people what they think of the drug, whether they'd be willing to use it and if
00:20they think it's a good idea.
00:22I think for what it is, I think it's fine to be fair. I think the research shows that
00:26it doesn't have a long-term impact, so as long as people are happy taking it and then
00:31do the exercise afterwards, if it makes them feel good, then why not?
00:34I took some weight loss drugs a long time ago that were from a different country and
00:37they were pretty questionable.
00:40It's not like a silver bullet would be my worry, that's when people see it as getting
00:43on employment to help people out of unemployment dead quickly, but then we'll see employment
00:48rise but then maybe six months, a year later it goes back.
00:52I'm not a fan of weight loss drugs. I think the bottom line is more calories need to go
00:59out than go in.