Army of Tovstuns: In Britain, soldiers are massively prescribed drugs for weight loss

The recipes were prescribed for Seaglutide, an active ingredient in such popular drugs as Ozempic and WEGOVY, which are used by Celebrity, like Katie Perry to lose weight. Semaglutide is a synthetic version of the natural hormone glucagon-like peptide 1 (GPP-1) that helps to regulate blood sugar. The commanders approved the issuance of medicines at the same time when the main training was reduced and the purchase of equipment was canceled to save money.

The Ministry of Defense has confirmed that medicines that will be prescribed during military service will most likely be intended for the treatment of diseases such as diabetes, which is directly related to obesity in adults. In 81 servicemen who were prescribed Semaglutide, who became fashionable in the United Kingdom thanks to TV presenter as Jeremy Clarkson and James border, diabetes could only develop in adulthood and after they joined the armed forces.

This is due to the fact that the army, the royal fleet and the royal military-air forces are exempted from the action of the law on equality, and therefore can be forbidden to serve in them people with diabetes and other diseases. Cases of diabetes with servicemen who are in service are overseen by doctors. They are not automatically released, but they cannot be directed to the front due to high degree of drug dependence.

Last year, doctors wrote 267 expensive prescriptions for miraculous weight loss drugs, while in 2022 there were only 60. The sources in the defense department also confirmed that the increase in the number of recipes in 2024 by 400 percent compared to 2022 was due to the fact that medical institutions Military bases "offered services that were more in line with NHS standards.

" Weight gain among servicemen is usually associated with malnutrition, in particular, excessive use of high -sugar carbohydrate carbohydrates and sugary drinks that are easily available on military bases. On January 28, the shadow minister of the Armed Forces Mark François stated: "Since almost a quarter of our regular army cannot be fully deployed on medical testimony, we obviously need to solve this problem.

However, given that the defense budget is under serious pressure, I doubt that the distribution of expensive weights for weight loss is the best way to solve the problem, not intense physiotherapy in the event of injuries and increased training. " Previous measures to encourage servicemen to "fight fat" included a ban on visiting the popular bakery Greggs.

In 2018, the media reported that the soldiers of the Royal Dragun Guards, struck in the garrison in the Northern Yorkshire, were ordered not to use this popular bakery. According to the latest data, more than 13,000 people in the UK Armed Forces "are not suitable for medical testimony. " These limited authority servicemen can only serve in certain places or in a limited amount of health problems. The total number of capable personnel of the Armed Forces in 2022 was 74,966.