{"id":48137,"date":"2026-03-08T03:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/relying-on-weight-loss-drugs-to-stop-obesity-would-be-societal-failure\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:45:09","slug":"relying-on-weight-loss-drugs-to-stop-obesity-would-be-societal-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/relying-on-weight-loss-drugs-to-stop-obesity-would-be-societal-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Relying on weight-loss drugs to stop obesity would be &#8216;societal failure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Speaking at the Medical Journalists&#8217; Association annual lecture, Sir Chris said he was worried about obesity as there is an &#8220;optimal weight&#8221; for healthy living, with larger waistlines increasing the risk of cancers, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and infections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clyzx4eypv8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at the Medical Journalists&#8217; Association annual lecture, Sir Chris said he was worried about obesity as there is an &#8220;optimal weight&#8221; for healthy living, with larger waistlines increasing the risk of cancers, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and infections. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[381,1602,6395,14082,14083,484,1531],"class_list":["post-48137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-drugs","tag-failure","tag-obesity","tag-relying","tag-societal","tag-stop","tag-weightloss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48139,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48137\/revisions\/48139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}