As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back (opens in new tab)

Actually we are explicitly throwing our hands up over more and more dangerous guns in civilian hands. We haven't made it illegal and all attempts at even moderate regulation are met with outrage over losing "freedom".

They don't need to be designed to do that. Companies don't really understand why things sell. They have a lot of ideas about what makes a successful product that are generally accurate. But at the end of the day, they just try stuff, see what sells, then do more of that.

If a sizeable portion of the market is on Ozempic, then this will naturally lead to there being a portion of the market that sells well to those people. At that will likely happen a decade before any human understands the mechanics by which that food sells well to people on Ozempic.

They already put substances in food to make us crave them more. It's not a huge leap from there.

I think we can consider ourselves lucky if government(s) act quickly to prohibit things before they cause too much damage. I'd love to live in a world where these sorts of people are held accountable but unfortunately we weren't born in the right timeline to experience that.

Idk. One challenge is that plenty of natural things can interfere with prescription medication... grapefruit juice comes to mind.

Coca Cola has phosphoric acid in it so you don't puke from the fact that it contains unnatural amounts of sugar.

Sugar itself, in its processed form, is quite unnatural and causes cravings and addiction.

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn't get much sugar aside from fructose.

Conclusion: sugar is mostly used by the industry because it's addictive.

The US is about enter an era of no government regulation...

ya! just like we did with the sackler family right? they're doing hard time for creating the opioid epidemic. oh wait, they're billionaires so i forgot they get a different set of rules.

don't hold your breath on any jail time for food companies doing this is my point.