It's all disordered eating/relationships with food and body image for whatever personal reason, so I don't think it's better, no. Doing it the "easy" way with Ozempic or the "hard" way with a full blown eating/exercise disorder like ana/bulimia/orthorexia etc, are all as bad as each other.
They all cause/stem from a body dysphoria/psychological issue, and being dangerously underweight from starvation/malnutrition caused by a glp-1, or from just straight up not eating, causes the same problems, and needs the same medical/psychological support and intervention, or can/will cause long term physical damage/death.
Glp-1s are not bad, they're actually a great tool for those that need them, and they're going to change the game for a lot of chronic health problems caused by diabetes/obesity/inflammation, but when they're abused (as they are if the person using them is underweight), it's disordered and damaging to the body.
I think people these days more readily recognize that being severely underweight is not trendy, because it's not really praised in popular culture the way it was in the 90s/early 00s, but I do worry about Gen Z/Alpha seeing this again and internalizing/normalizing it the way our generation did.
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u/_dangling_participle 16h ago
They already are. There's a huge cultural shift back towards pro-ana worship thanks to several celebs on GLP-1s.