Weight-loss drug Mounjaro will be rolled out to a quarter of a million NHS patients. But leading experts tell Rebecca Thomas and Alicja Hagiopan that weight-loss jabs alone will not be enough to solve the obesity crisis
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Weight-loss drug Mounjaro will be rolled out to a quarter of a million NHS patients. But leading experts tell Rebecca Thomas and Alicja Hagiopan that weight-loss jabs alone will not be enough to solve the obesity crisis
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The UK has an obesity epidemic, with levels having doubled since the 1990s. Could increasing the rollout of weight-loss drugs…
Around 29% of the adult population in the UK is obese
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Health secretary Wes Streeting wants to make the drugs more widely available on the NHS
