{"id":283433,"date":"2026-02-06T06:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283433\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:20:09","slug":"are-people-spending-less-on-food-when-they-take-weight-loss-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283433\/","title":{"rendered":"Are people spending less on food when they take weight-loss drugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The medications are prohibitively expensive for many, but those who can afford them may be saving on their grocery bills\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Studies show that GLP\u20111 users typically cut household grocery spending by about 5-6pc within six months. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/930e231c-44c0-4ec7-ba3e-bdbd649c845f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Studies show that GLP\u20111 users typically cut household grocery spending by about 5-6pc within six months. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Before starting on a weight-loss drug, Martin Leeson was spending around \u20ac280 a week on food, regular takeaways, grab-and-go coffees and a full grocery trolley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Three months into treatment and his household food bill had fallen to \u20ac165. That is a saving of \u20ac115 a week, or roughly \u20ac460 a month. His monthly prescription, meanwhile, costs just \u20ac1.50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The medications are prohibitively expensive for many, but those who can afford them may be saving on their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3414,7781,103,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-283433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-geraldine-herbert","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}