A weighty issue: managing male obesity with weight loss drugs

Rates of overweight and obesity in Australians since the 1990s have skyrocketed – and men have been leading the charge. Cathy O’Leary looks at how doctors are using a more nuanced approach with anti-obesity medications to help turn the tide. Australians – young and old – have stacked on the weight in the past few decades and the reasons why are part of a complex web of evolutionary, physiological, environmental and societal changes. According to the most recent data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, two-thirds of adults – about 13 million people – were overweight or obese…