Why I’m so excited about the weight loss drugs I’ll never take

Last year, for the first time, food consumption went down, reported the Financial Times, making 2025 “the first year on record where the volume of food consumed in America has decreased.” The weight loss drugs are taking their pound of flesh: not just from their own delighted customers, but from the food industry too.

Meanwhile, this week I have a story in the New York Times about the way intermittent fasting has been oversold the past decade. One researcher reckons that part of the...