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Vogue Arabia
11-08-2025
- Health
- Vogue Arabia
Is Oatzempic The Natural Answer to Ozempic?
Weight loss has always been a widely discussed topic – tried, tested, and talked about in every possible way. It's a journey most of us have grappled with at some point. The recent rise of Ozempic speaks volumes about our ongoing struggle with weight. The drug – originally meant for type 2 diabetes – was found to promote significant weight loss, sparking off-label use and a gold rush in the weight-loss drug market. At the same time, there's a quiet obsession involved with losing weight – most of us get glued to the hacks and are ready to try anything if it helps. A handful of plain rolled oats blended with lemon juice and water – consumed for breakfast and dinner every day – is the core of a diet, called Oatzempic, that claims to help you shed 8 to 10 kilos in a month. Oatzempic, meanwhile, plays on the name without the clinical substance. 'Ozempic (semaglutide) is a GLP-1 receptor agonist that restores insulin response, slows gastric emptying, and reduces appetite by hormonal pathways. The oat smoothie is just another fibre-rich beverage. Fibre might help a little with satiety, but it will not mimic any pharmacological action of Ozempic. I advise people not to do it and feel that it is scientifically inaccurate,' says celebrity dietician, Simran Kathuria. Oatzempic isn't harmful, per se. But it's also not medicine. 'This hack creates the illusion of a quick fix, often at the cost of a balanced diet. It can lead to low protein intake – crucial for preserving muscle mass – and deficiencies in healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals, raising the risk of metabolic issues, especially in younger individuals or those with health conditions. It may also foster an unhealthy relationship with food, increasing the risk of disordered eating and frustration when results don't meet expectations. Additionally, the high fiber content can cause bloating, cramps, and digestive discomfort. Ultimately, balance suffers both from excess and deficiency,' cautions Dr Giuseppe Bellucci, a specialist in functional nutrition and metabolism at Baldan Group. That said, oats do have nutritional value. Their high content of soluble fibre (beta-glucan) helps increase satiety, reduce daily calorie intake, support gut health, and regulate blood sugar levels. 'When it is taken with a well-balanced diet, it may help in stopping you from unwanted snacking and thereby offering sustainable weight loss. Sustainable health improvements need to go hand in hand with calorie control, exercise, and nutrition planning of one's own,' she advises.
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
As a Teenage Girl, ‘SkinnyTok' Makes Me Hate My Own Body
My friend's room was pink, with dolls and flowers and a grand window overlooking Central Park. She had a poster that said 'Chanel' above her bed, and a card above her desk that said, 'Happy 13th!' We were lying on her bed on our stomachs, pink-painted toenails kicking in the air, wearing Brandy Melville tank tops and boy shorts. We'd watched the movie Thirteen the night before, and were scrolling through Pinterest photos of all the great '90s models — Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Shalom Harlow — when she rolled over and put her phone down. 'Ugh, I wish I looked like them!' she exclaimed. 'If only I had a thigh gap.' To which I naively responded, 'What's that?' She took me to the mirror and carefully compared our legs, pointing out how hers touched and mine didn't — and since that day, I've kept careful tabs on the growing and shrinking of the negative space between my thighs. Four years later, it's only gotten worse. Ever since I've found myself swept up in 'SkinnyTok,' the stakes have become even higher: God forbid my thigh gap ever disappears. More from SheKnows TikTok's Newest Move Aims To Help Teens Get Better Sleep at Night 'SkinnyTok' and its other social media counterparts are the new faces of an age-old tradition when it comes to women and their weight. Society has had an obsession with our bodies for at least as long as there's been media. In ancient times, women were sculpted; in medieval times, they were painted; in industrial times, they were stuffed into corsets; and in modern times, they are plastered on billboards and posted on our phone feeds. Recently, social media trends like SkinnyTok and Oatzempic have been gaining immense popularity. SkinnyTok includes a wide variety of content, ranging from truly well-meaning diet and exercise tips to harmful content that preys on teen girls like me (and all the women whose bodies have been scrutinized their entire lives). On this platform, people share weight loss 'tips' and their own journeys. Meanwhile, 'Oatzempic' is a dietary hack; it means having oat-based diets, particularly blending oats with water and lime juice to promote weight loss. My FYP and algorithm know me well; I am a teen girl, and I see more than one of these videos a day. And it's impossible for them not to infiltrate the culture around my eating and my friends. Prom is coming up, and just a few weeks ago, my friend told me that she was 'prepping.' When I asked her to explain, she said that she was going on a run every day, and having only a protein bar and small dinner. I asked her how she got this idea, and she showed me a video on SkinnyTok. After watching the video that inspired my friend, I was hooked on this account. I scrolled through for an hour, looking at all this woman's tips and tricks. And when I got up to look in the mirror afterwards, I was about twenty pounds heavier than I was twenty minutes earlier — or at least, that's how it felt. Most videos have pretty much the same message: Stories and hacks, often dangerous, on how to lose weight fast. Some videos are meant to serve as motivation. Just today, I watched a woman showing off her body on the treadmill, and the text over the video said, 'Do it for the compliments. Do it for the jealous stares. Do it for the concerned looks.' Another video gives insight into how 'skinny girls' live. 'They view food as optional,' the woman explains, and then goes on to promote a type of jelly that has five calories and is as filling as a full meal — a jelly I tried for a few days before feeling like I was gonna puke. Those sorts of videos make me feel gluttonous: The woman talking to me has no problem turning down food, and yet I feel as if I'm always stuffing it in my face. Even without an eating disorder, it's difficult to look away from this content. I get up feeling the need to go to the gym or walk 20,000 steps or maybe skip dinner, and when I don't do these things, I'm left feeling like a failure. My friends and I share these videos with each other, spreading the content and falling victim to the perils. Thanks to SkinnyTok, my friends and I got the idea to count our calories in a shared notes app. Obsessively, I searched for the magic number attached to everything I ate during the course of any given day, and if my total got too high, it was time to call it quits. And yet no matter what I do, the message from the other side of the phone screen is clear: The 'skinny lifestyle' is never going to be the one I'm leading, and my body is never going to look as good as theirs. Even without social media, the idea that girls can never be skinny enough would continue to infiltrate the teenage mind. But social media is particularly adept at spreading a message, and feeding into dark rabbit holes. Social media makes it all the easier to access this message and content; you no longer need to go looking for it, it finds you. It's constantly in your face, telling you what you're doing wrong and all the imperfections those wrong actions cause. To be sure, there are some truly helpful videos floating around the internet. I learned that, when I get a sweet tooth after dinner, it's better to eat whipped cream and strawberries instead of ice cream; and I learned that portion control is always healthy, when done right. But most of what festers within trends around dieting never leads to anything good, because the line between healthy and dangerous is almost invisible — and the mind of a teenage girl is delicate, bordering on fragile, bordering on wired-like-a-booby-trap. Social media is addictive enough, but content about food and weight is even more so. It's hard to look away, and it turns into an obsession with just the slightest indulgence. What's worse, too, is that we seek it out. Once one video on the subject pops up, we're hungry for more. We want to be skinny, and we want to know exactly how to do it. Everything talked about on SkinnyTok is like a carnival game designed to make us lose; if we girls don't keep up with the diets and exercise, we surrender all of our progress. I wish I could go around eating whatever I want, whenever I want. And I know my friends do too, but society doesn't allow for it, and social media keeps us in line. As if our own twisted consciences were not enough, we now have monitors in our pockets at every moment of every day, looking over our shoulders, inspecting our plates and our thigh gaps, and reprimanding us of our lapses. We are kids; we should be allowed the sweet indulgences of childhood. But instead, we've been tortured in our relationship with candy for almost as long as we've known just how good candy tastes. Eating has always been a perilous equation for girls, but now — thanks to our phones — the equation has gotten even more lopsided against us. There is no way for us to go anywhere near the kitchen, or the refrigerator, without having to answer to our social media feeds. And as a result, our minds are as full of bad ideas as our stomachs are empty of meaningful calories. Best of SheKnows The Best Places to Buy Furniture for Teens Online The Most Striking Rare Boy Names in the U.S. Right Now — & the Reason You Haven't Heard Them (Yet) 19 Celebrity Stepparents Who Have a Tight Bond With Their Stepkids
The Age
20-05-2025
- Health
- The Age
Five foods that release the same ‘fullness' hormone as Ozempic
Weight loss drugs: Oprah's on them, Elon's tried them and even Jeremy Clarkson gave them a whirl (they didn't agree with him). Ozempic, in case you haven't heard, is a Type 2 diabetes treatment which is also prescribed for its weight loss effects. The medicines regulator has since approved a higher dose under the brand name Wegovy to treat obesity. The active ingredient in both drugs is semaglutide, which works by mimicking the action of the GLP-1 hormone, a compound generally released by the gut after a meal. GLP-1 signals to the brain that we are full, preventing us from overeating. Understandably, you may be hesitant to inject yourself with a drug, and the side-effects aren't pleasant either, from nausea to constipation and heartburn. Thankfully, we can all regulate our appetite more naturally by eating foods that trigger the release of the same fullness hormone as Ozempic. One of our favourite snacks could help stave off hunger pangs; scientists have invented a dark chocolate biscuit – with an extra ingredient that works like Ozempic - which has similar hunger-suppressing effects. Following are the top five best foods to keep you feeling full. Oats and whole grains Always first to jump on a trend, those zealous TikTokers have been all over this one with the recent 'Oatzempic' raze – an oat-rich smoothie touted as 'Ozempic in a glass'. They may be on to something. If you are partial to a morning bowl of porridge, you'll already know how filling it is. A 2016 study found that the soluble fibre contained in oats and other whole grains is fermented by the gut, producing short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) which stimulate GLP-1 release. If you're not a fan of porridge's gloopy texture, why not blend some oats into a smoothie along with other fibre-rich ingredients for a satiating start to the day? Place 2 tbsp oats in a blender, pulse a few times to grind before adding 100g frozen mixed berries, a small ripe banana, 1 tbsp peanut butter and 100ml milk. Blend until smooth and drink straight away. Eggs Not only are eggs rich in protein, which takes longer to digest than fat or carbohydrate and so keeps us feeling full for longer, but recent research has found that egg whites contain peptides that stimulate GLP-1 production. But don't worry, there's no need to resort to tasteless egg-white omelettes. The yolks contain an abundance of essential nutrients including vitamins B2, B12 and D, choline, selenium and iodine, and research shows that the cholesterol in eggs does not significantly raise levels of 'bad' cholesterol in our blood.
Sydney Morning Herald
20-05-2025
- Health
- Sydney Morning Herald
Five foods that release the same ‘fullness' hormone as Ozempic
Weight loss drugs: Oprah's on them, Elon's tried them and even Jeremy Clarkson gave them a whirl (they didn't agree with him). Ozempic, in case you haven't heard, is a Type 2 diabetes treatment which is also prescribed for its weight loss effects. The medicines regulator has since approved a higher dose under the brand name Wegovy to treat obesity. The active ingredient in both drugs is semaglutide, which works by mimicking the action of the GLP-1 hormone, a compound generally released by the gut after a meal. GLP-1 signals to the brain that we are full, preventing us from overeating. Understandably, you may be hesitant to inject yourself with a drug, and the side-effects aren't pleasant either, from nausea to constipation and heartburn. Thankfully, we can all regulate our appetite more naturally by eating foods that trigger the release of the same fullness hormone as Ozempic. One of our favourite snacks could help stave off hunger pangs; scientists have invented a dark chocolate biscuit – with an extra ingredient that works like Ozempic - which has similar hunger-suppressing effects. Following are the top five best foods to keep you feeling full. Oats and whole grains Always first to jump on a trend, those zealous TikTokers have been all over this one with the recent 'Oatzempic' raze – an oat-rich smoothie touted as 'Ozempic in a glass'. They may be on to something. If you are partial to a morning bowl of porridge, you'll already know how filling it is. A 2016 study found that the soluble fibre contained in oats and other whole grains is fermented by the gut, producing short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) which stimulate GLP-1 release. If you're not a fan of porridge's gloopy texture, why not blend some oats into a smoothie along with other fibre-rich ingredients for a satiating start to the day? Place 2 tbsp oats in a blender, pulse a few times to grind before adding 100g frozen mixed berries, a small ripe banana, 1 tbsp peanut butter and 100ml milk. Blend until smooth and drink straight away. Eggs Not only are eggs rich in protein, which takes longer to digest than fat or carbohydrate and so keeps us feeling full for longer, but recent research has found that egg whites contain peptides that stimulate GLP-1 production. But don't worry, there's no need to resort to tasteless egg-white omelettes. The yolks contain an abundance of essential nutrients including vitamins B2, B12 and D, choline, selenium and iodine, and research shows that the cholesterol in eggs does not significantly raise levels of 'bad' cholesterol in our blood.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Weight-loss drugs to get surprising endorsement from global health giant
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced its support for weight-loss drugs in adults globally. The organization plans to back GLP-1s like Wegovy and Zepbound to treat obesity in adults as part of a shift in addressing the global obesity epidemic, as reported by Reuters. In a memo, the agency called for strategies to improve access to the medications in countries that are low- and middle-income, Reuters summarized. 'Oatzempic' Diet Drink For Weight Loss: Does It Work And Is It Safe? More than one billion people have obesity across the globe, according to WHO's data, and around 70% of these individuals live in low- and middle-income countries. The proven effectiveness of weight-loss drugs has led individuals, especially in the U.S. and other high-income countries like Britain and Germany, to seek out GLP-1 solutions. Read On The Fox News App For more Lifestyle articles, visit Cost can be a factor, however, as the medications can be priced at more than $1,000 per month, Reuters noted. In a statement, a WHO spokesperson wrote that the agency has been working on a "set of new recommendations for obesity prevention, care and treatment" among different age groups, including children, adolescents and adults. Click Here To Sign Up For Our Lifestyle Newsletter The agency said it expects the drug recommendations to be finalized by August or September 2025. The guidance will also include "how and when this class of medications may be integrated as one component of a chronic care model that includes both clinical and lifestyle interventions," the WHO stated. WHO experts also plan to meet next week to decide whether GLP-1 drugs should be included on the agency's list of essential medications to treat both obesity and type 2 diabetes. The agency is also reportedly calling for longer-term studies on the cost-effectiveness of these drugs "across all settings" and income article source: Weight-loss drugs to get surprising endorsement from global health giant
