DR MARC SIEGEL: America, beware of false weight loss gods

Oprah Winfrey is on a book tour promoting her new book, "Enough: Your Weight and What It’s Like to Be Free." In 2023, she reportedly had one of her famous "aha" moments, this time realizing that her road to personal freedom involved GLP-1 agonist drugs. She stopped seeing obesity as a personal failure and began viewing GLP-1s as a way to "quiet the noise" that comes with constantly wanting to eat. In her telling, she was suddenly free.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe Oprah’s "aha moments" are real...