Sarah Harte: Our broken food culture is driving us towards weight loss drugs

Weight loss drugs are a revolution for people who are seriously obese, but shouldn't we take a look at the ultra-processed foods causing our health problems first?

Societally, we have allowed transnational companies to aggressively market ultra-processed foods which have displaced healthy diets globally.

Is the age of body positivity gone? The waif is back on the catwalk with millions embracing weight-suppressant drugs known as GLP-1 agonists. Hardly surprising that people turn to drugs to shrink themselves when weight bias is so heavily ingrained in society and being fat is so highly stigmatised.

It’s baked into our psyches that it’s better to be thin, and when you fall short of this mark, it can be a source of intense shame. This is true for all genders, although it’s particularly pernicious for females, such is our cultural bombardment from birth about the necessity of being thin.