If Health Is Wealth, America Is Dirt Poor

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Remember in the early 2010s when everyone decided to go gluten-free? Most people didn’t actually have a wheat allergy or celiac disease. “Not eating bread makes me feel lighter — and this stuff is actually so filling,” people would say, holding up a fistfull of flaxseed crackers. But a few years later, that went out of style. Body positivity! No makeup-makeup! Wellness is dead; martinis are good! But that era, too, seems to be ending, giving way to something far more dangerous than cutting down on bread. Ozempic, a life-saving miracle drug for diabetics, has been weaponized by a hush-hush cult of celebrities who believe that being “thin is power.”