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How ‘miracle’ weight-loss drugs will change the world

Models suggest societal upheaval from anti-obesity medicines — but impacts are hard to predict.
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  1. Sara Reardon

    1. Sara Reardon is a freelance journalist based in Bozeman, Montana.

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Welcome to the healthier, happier world of 2030. Heart attacks and strokes are down 20%. A drop in food consumption has left more money in people’s wallets. Lighter passengers are saving airlines 100 million litres of fuel each year. And billions of people are enjoying a better quality of life, with improvements to their mental and physical health.

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Nature 635, 22-24 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03589-7

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