People who lose weight on Ozempic are viewed worse than people who don’t lose weight at all: study

Teona Gherasim

In the Ozempic era, not all pounds lost are met with praise. New research suggests that people may face more judgment for slimming down with the help of a GLP-1 drug than if they hadn’t lost weight at all. “We expected there might be some stigma around using a GLP-1,” Erin Standen, assistant professor of psychological sciences at Rice University and the lead author of the study, said in a press release . “But what surprised us was the extent of it.” In the study, Standen and her colleagues