Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has some thoughts about Ozempic. According to the nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, the government should not provide the drug for millions of Americans, but instead address obesity and diabetes by handing out organic food and gym memberships. Like many of RFK's statements, these ideas have elicited some outrage. Their basic premise, though'that Americans should control their weight by eating better and getting exercise'could not be more mainstream. But this commonsense philosophy of losing weight, as espoused by RFK, the FDA, and really almost any doctor whom you might have asked at any time in recent memory, has lately fallen out of step with the scientific evidence. Lifestyle interventions have been central to the nation's decades-long attempt to curb its rates of chronic illness. Eat less, move more: This advice applies to almost everyone, but for those who have obesity or are overweight'about three-quarters of the adult population...
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