Malika Bilal
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38 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Jan
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They're eating too much.
They're not moving enough.
And what has this got to do with us?
And that battle is really explored in the book and is really quite amazing.
Yes.
And I mean, we have a very well-known live case study happening now, which is Oprah Winfrey, who is talking this week at length about the fact that she was on these drugs.
They really helped her.
But then she came off them and she put 20 pounds back on within a year.
So I think we've got data as well from the University of Oxford.
There's an awful lot of data now suggesting that when you come off these drugs, it's not that they rewire your brain or they rewire your gut necessarily.
it's that actually you do seem to revert back to the way your body was behaving before.
So a lot of people who are living with obesity talk about this food noise, which is kind of an incessant chatter in their head, telling them to eat more, eat more, eat more.
And for many people, that seems to switch off when they're on these drugs.
And that's almost, they say, a bigger benefit than the weight loss.
We live in a world where the news is at our fingertips.
But how often do we stop scrolling and just listen?
I'm Malika Bilal and this is The Take, Al Jazeera's daily news podcast where we bring you the context and the people behind the global stories that matter.
They're not spectators now.
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