THEninterviewed by Sunday TimesKate Winslet expressed great concern about the boom in popularity of slimming drugs (once it was Ozempic, today Mounjaro is the most popular). In the Sunday edition of the newspaper, the British actress stated bluntly: “It’s scary how many people are using drugs to lose weight.” Then he added: «Are they really aware of what they are putting into their bodies? Carelessness about one’s health is appalling. Today it affects me more than ever. It’s bloody chaos out there,” Kate Winslet said.
Kate Winslet against weight loss drugs
The movie star, decades later remained in the hearts of many like the rebel Roses by Titaniche didn’t just point the finger at the obsession with losing weight (she, by the way, knows something about it, given that as a young woman she was massacred by the international media for her feminine curves).
«Some of the most beautiful women I knowI think of Helen Mirren, Sigourney Weaver, Toni Collette and Andrea Riseborough, have over seventy and what shocks me is that young women have no idea what it means to be truly beautiful. What idea of perfection do people aspire to today?”, asked Kate Winslet, whose two children they are following in his footsteps, defining themselves as actors.
The problem of “easy” weight loss
As underlined by the doctor Riccardo Midolosurgeon, aesthetic doctor and medical director of LabQuarantadue Milan, «the race for slimming drugs is absolutely not a phenomenon limited to the United States alone, on the contrary. Even in Italy this type of substance is becoming increasingly easier to accessreplacing serious diet programs and presenting itself as an easy and quick shortcut to losing weight.”
«It’s a shame the negative effects are increasingly evidentfrom gastritis and pancreatitis problems, reaching up to sarcopeniaa syndrome characterized by the progressive loss of mass, strength and muscle function.”
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On the aesthetic medicine touch-up side, «it’s very important avoid getting overwhelmed by the obsession with the forever young faceunder penalty of falling victim to a real addiction to fillers, botulinum toxin and everything it promises redefine the features and facial expression, in an anti-aging key. In this sense it is of fundamental importance to turn to serious and honest professionals, capable of providing a healthy brake on excessive requestsrecognizing whether there are strong social pressures underlying it and psychological difficulties in accepting oneself», underlines Dr. Midolo.