Obesity rates may start falling this year due to weight loss jabs, seller says
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The UK may have reached peak obesity and rates could start falling rapidly later this year, Sky News has been told. Data collected by one of the biggest online sellers of weight loss jabs suggests that so many people are now taking effective medication that the inexorable rise in obesity could start to reverse.
According to Simple Online Pharmacy, which has access to wholesale figures, 500,000 people in the UK are currently taking either Mounjaro or Wegovy - and they can expect to lose 15% to 20% of their weight over a matter of months. Rebecca Moore, the company's chief operating officer, said: "Our projections are that around a million people will reverse their obesity in a year.
"We should be at the point now, we believe, where we're starting to see rates decline. "We would not be surprised if by the end of this year we've seen a really significant decline in obesity.". The company has supplied the drugs to 200,000 people, who have collectively lost 600 tonnes of their weight.
Demand for medication is growing by 10% to 40% month-on-month, and the company has had to build a walk-in fridge to store enough medication to supply 400 patients an hour. "The narrative has really shifted in the last few months," said Ms Moore. "People are recognising that obesity is a lifelong chronic condition. They're recognising that this medication is a once-in-a-generation revolutionary technology.
