Stati Uniti il paese degli obesi - PresaDiretta 01/04/2024

https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/pres... - A true epidemic is raging in America: obesity. Forty-two percent of Americans are obese and 31% are overweight. This is why the United States has become the largest market for the new "weight-loss drug": prescriptions have increased by 300%. Doctors engaged in research into obesity-related disorders consider these drugs to be true lifesavers. Science, the world's most authoritative scientific journal, named the drug the most significant scientific innovation of 2023. At Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles, one of the most important hospitals in the United States, doctors treating obesity and metabolic disorders consider weight-loss drugs "revolutionary." These drugs have a significant impact on patients' lives because they can interrupt other medications for diabetes, blood pressure, and knee painkillers. Essentially, a single drug, a weight-loss drug, can treat all these conditions. Clinical studies show that this drug also reduces the risk of heart disease by 20%. Together with Jeffrey Friedman, a molecular geneticist at Rockefeller University in New York, we try to understand how food addiction arises. The role of leptin. The problem of the food industry. Today in the United States, junk food is everywhere. Ultraprocessed foods in particular, industrial foods full of additives and preservatives that stimulate appetite and make you eat more. These are foods that make you feel ecstatic, they're irresistible, and they make you eat them multiple times a day. And so the American short circuit is created, favoring a food industry that makes you sick and a pharmaceutical industry that tries to remedy the situation.