We live in an era where health and wellness dominate public conversation, but one person’s voice remains arguably the most powerful catalyst for change. Even at 70-years-old (and more than a decade removed from daytime TV), Oprah Winfrey still very much has the potential to move society. While she’s been a major contributor to diet culture, it’s her recent public discourse that could mark a pivotal moment in public health. Despite the prevalence of obesity (and its association with numerous health complications), it has often been framed as a failure of individual willpower. But with GLP-1 medications recently getting the “Oprah Effect,” it has reframed obesity as a complex, treatable condition, and brought attention to these innovative treatments.

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