When Chevese Turner first discussed Ozempic with her doctor to treat her diabetes, she was both worried and relieved. Finally, “there was something effective that [was] going to address my diabetes,” says Turner, the CEO of the Body Equity Alliance .

But as a weight discrimination activist, Turner knew how others in her community might view her taking a drug associated with rapid weight loss. She worried, too, about what it might mean for her eating. She is in recovery from a long, complicated relationship with food, and has experienced symptoms of both binge-eating disorder and atypical anorexia.

“After a lifetime of using food to help manage my emotions, and then using restriction to help manage my emotions, I was always using one or the other,” she says. Even if the drug caused fewe

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