To Understand Why People Are Being Misled About WLI's When The Headlines Are This Disingenuous...

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Annoyed to load my PC this morning to have yet another headline scaremongering About WLI's, when the article itself is the opposite of the headline.

Headline: Doctor's bone loss warning to anyone on weight loss jabs

A few lines in you get:

However, as with any medication, they can cause side effects. Speaking on TikTok, Doctor Karan Rajan explained more.
Dr Rajan, who is better known as Dr Raj, said: "If you're on a GLP-1, you can lose bone density." However, he clarified that this could happen with any form of weight loss.
He continued: "But any weight loss can cause that. There's no plausible biological mechanism by which semaglutide, tirzepatide, or any GLP-1 medication directly contributes to bone loss or activates osteoclasts, the cells that break down bone, or blocks osteoblasts, the cells that build bone."

It's hardly surprising some people are so scared of them when every other headline is deliberately misleading. Why is the media so desperate to portray them negatively?

What was the headline ?

Yeah it should just say 'weight loss can cause bone loss'. But that's too boring and everyone knows that already so they wouldn't bother read it I guess?

Doctor's bone loss warning to anyone on weight loss jabs

I’m hugely pro wli, on them myself and hate all the scaremongering and faux concern. However I don’t actually think that headline is so bad. The fact is, thanks to WLI, huge numbers of people are losing a lot of weight, often people who have not managed to do so before. So warning people of the need to lose weight in a healthy, sustainable way without causing other health problems seems fine to me.

Why do the media print so many anti-WLI stories? Clicks

People should be wary and respectful of them. They are a new medication with very limited understanding of their long term effects, and I find people are very gungho about lying to get them prescribed and making up their own dosing schedule.

After seeing the pictures in a national paper at the weekend of the animals being tested on in the lab I don’t know how anyone manages to take them to be honest. I found myself having a number of sleepless nights over the desperate struggles of the monkeys being subjected to rounds of force feeding. I accept animal testing may be necessary for some medical drugs, but for this vanity drug it seems unnecessary and barbaric. They may be a drug but the majority of the use and profitability comes from cosmetic use.

I agree animal testing is barbaric and don't agree with it at all, in any context.

Reducing obesity isn't about vanity. And this isn't a new medication.

People lie to get all sorts of medication. That doesn't make the medication itself dangerous. And this article has nothing to do with the danger of the drug. Which was precisely my point. It's talking about weight loss in general.

Vanity drug? Really? You don’t know the health risks of obesity and that it shortens life expectancy? Embarrassed for you tbh.

Your link is from MSN and it quotes someone from tiktok. That's your issue. Stay away from crap, click bait news providers then you wont see the crap click news stories.

It's not my issue, I'm aware the article has no merit. That's the entire basis of my post? A clickbait headline, with an article that provides no evidence of such.

MSN news loads as soon as I load my work PC. It's not like I've posted "here is my preferred source for research"

My point was that these endless clickbait headlines are the reason the general public seem to not understand the effects of WLIs

But you have clicked on it and then shared it. You are a clickbait writers dream! They only write that shit if they know people will read it as the clicks make them money. That's the whole point of click bait - it's so ridiculous that people like you read and share it. Congrats, you've just made them a load of money!

You're being unreasonable: it's an article by the Daily Express. Stop reading that rag (and the mirror and the mail) and you'll stop getting so many lies in your newsfeed.