Johann Hari, journalist: ‘It’s so ingrained in our culture that obesity is a sin’
The writer has published ‘Magic Pill,’ a book where based on his own experience with weight-loss drugs he embarks on a journey about the impact of these revolutionary treatments
A couple of days after starting to take Ozempic, says journalist and writer Johann Hari (Glasgow, 46 years old), he woke up with a strange feeling, unknown to him: he was not hungry. He got out of bed and went out to have his usual breakfast at his local bar, a chicken sandwich with mayonnaise. He took a couple of bites and could not finish it. He was full. The medication, belonging to that generation of drugs that have revolutionized the fight against obesity by imitating the effect of a hormone (GLP-1) that warns us when we are full, was giving him back a lost perception: that of satiety.
