{"id":334317,"date":"2025-12-25T03:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334317\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T03:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:22:20","slug":"ozempic-vs-indian-food-culture-doctor-explains-the-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334317\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozempic vs Indian food culture: Doctor explains the limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s growing conversation around Ozempic sits at a tricky crossroads, between rising obesity rates and a food culture built on flavour, family, and celebration. As weight-loss injections gain attention for their quick results, doctors are urging caution against viewing them as a one-stop solution. How do these drugs actually work? Who should use them and who shouldn\u2019t? And could their popularity distract us from the harder work of fixing diets and lifestyles?<br \/>In an exclusive interview with TOI, Dr. Girish Parmar, Director, Endocrinology &amp; Diabetology at Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai, breaks down the science, the risks, and the reality behind Ozempic in the Indian context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India\u2019s growing conversation around Ozempic sits at a tricky crossroads, between rising obesity rates and a food culture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[130165,102,130166,130164,6591,130167,578,56,54,55,26049],"class_list":["post-334317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-diet-and-lifestyle-changes","tag-health","tag-health-risks-of-ozempic","tag-indian-food-culture","tag-medication","tag-obesity-rates-in-india","tag-ozempic","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-weight-loss-injections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}