Obesity: UK 'going down road of America' says David Lammy

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The UK has long faced an obesity epidemic and public health interventions have failed time and time again. One in four adults in UK are currently characterised as obese. However, a new weight loss jab may help to turn the tide on the dismal statistics.

The treatment, semaglutide, branded Wegovy, makes people feel fuller, so they eat less, and not as hungry.

According to This Morning’s Doctor Nighat, the jab works by “stimulating fat in the body”.

Compared to the placebo group, those injected have observed a two and half stone weight loss, the TV doc explained.

She was citing a double-blind trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which enrolled 1,961 adults with a body-mass index (the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) of 30 or greater.

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