What I learnt from losing my sense of taste
One of the many points Ozempic misses is that food is more than “a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips”
I just ate a scone for breakfast. I didn’t want a scone. I was planning to have a muffin, but when I got to the cafe I go to every Wednesday morning to write this newsletter, they were all out of muffins. So in the battle between scones and tea cakes (and porridge - noooo), the scone won.
I’m sharing this mundane breakfast-related fact because, when I sat down to write, I came across an article called “I miss eating” about a weight loss drug called Ozempic, which is the hot new thing amongst LAs rich, fabulous and thin. Apparently. Its USP? It makes food taste disgusting by triggering a chemical repugnance to food. (I’m over-simplifying massively, obviously. If you'd like more scientific detail, you can read the full article here. If you do, you will see that one of the case studies is a 53-year-old perimen…