"The WHO recommends healthier diets and physical activity to reduce obesity, but medication might help when lifestyle changes aren’t enough. The new drugs mimic hormones known as incretins, which lower blood sugar and curb appetite."
Isn't eating less food (whether your appetite is curbed or not) a lifestyle change? It's not that lifestyle changes aren't enough. It's that the size of your change wasn't big enough.
> It's not that lifestyle changes aren't enough. It's that the size of your change wasn't big enough.
Sure, and one of the things we conclusively know about obesity is that people struggle enormously to sustain that sort of lifestyle change in the long term.
Hence, medications that help with that. In this case, by reducing hunger.
Isn't eating less food (whether your appetite is curbed or not) a lifestyle change? It's not that lifestyle changes aren't enough. It's that the size of your change wasn't big enough.