UM TodayOzempic – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Global News: ‘Oatzempic’ is gaining steam online. What is this weight loss trend? https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/global-news-oatzempic-is-gaining-steam-online-what-is-this-weight-loss-trend/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/global-news-oatzempic-is-gaining-steam-online-what-is-this-weight-loss-trend/#respond Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:36:12 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=195361 ‘Oatzempic’ is gaining steam online. What is this weight loss trend?]]> Natalie Riediger, an associate professor in the Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences at the University of Manitoba, said the oatzempic trend is a recent food fad she saw pop up, and believes these types of trends tend to “come and go.”

“For the last, I don’t know how many decades, we have had a preoccupation with weight loss. So this isn’t surprising,” she told Global News. “And of course, Ozempic has really penetrated the public consciousness.”

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