Terry Prone: Fatten up the tax receipts with production of weight-loss drug
Producing the weight-loss drug Ozempic in Ireland could boost corporate tax revenue from Big Pharma. Picture: Mario Tama/Getty
Another friend said she wouldn’t go into detail, but the constipation was epic. A third wanted to smite Oprah for that statement she put out to the effect that losing weight through these new drugs was doing it the easy way. Much the same line as Dr Eva advances. The friend, who was first put on Ozempic for diabetes and for whom the weight loss was a blissful side-effect, wants to know how someone as intelligent as Oprah can be so thick when it comes to appetite management. Here’s a woman, he points out, who has spent most of her adult life publicly losing and gaining weight, which is rotten for overall health, plus being painful and in Oprah’s case, frequently counter-productive.