Make It Make Sense - Weight Loss Medication Should Be Considered Chronic Medication?
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Picture this: you stop your asthma pump and expect your breathing to stay steady. You ditch your cholesterol meds and assume your heart will cope. We know that’s not how chronic illness works, yet when it comes to obesity, we still frame it as a discipline problem instead of a medical condition.
In South Africa, one in three adults lives with obesity, increasing the risk of diabetes, heart disease and cancer. New research shows that when weight-loss medication stops, the weight often returns. This lifestyle feature unpacks stigma, access, food environments and why it’s time to treat obesity as the long-term health issue it truly is.
Guest: Dr Nomathemba Chandiwana- Chief Scientific Officer and researcher at DESMOND TUTU HEALTH FOUNDATION.
In South Africa, one in three adults lives with obesity, increasing the risk of diabetes, heart disease and cancer. New research shows that when weight-loss medication stops, the weight often returns. This lifestyle feature unpacks stigma, access, food environments and why it’s time to treat obesity as the long-term health issue it truly is.
Guest: Dr Nomathemba Chandiwana- Chief Scientific Officer and researcher at DESMOND TUTU HEALTH FOUNDATION.
