(The Times) – Bowling Green, Kentucky, has one of the highest rates of weight loss drug use in America. Locals believe the nation will follow

Vest is one of thousands of residents of Bowling Green, Kentucky — about 4 per cent of its 75,000 population — on prescribed weight-loss medication, a rate so high the city has been dubbed the “Ozempic capital” of the United States.

America has long had the highest obesity rate in the industrialised world. But the country’s embrace of GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro has helped to lead to the most dramatic national weight loss in modern history. (Read More)