Elisa Pineda, Charlotte Fenner, Cédric N. H. Middel
Summary: GLP-1 medications may be part of the response to obesity and diet-related disease, but they do not change the food environment surrounding people every day. In Fixing the Food Environment: Beyond Weight-Loss Drugs, the authors examine the widespread availability and marketing of ultra-processed foods and discuss approaches such as food labeling, marketing restrictions, product reformulation, pricing, and improving access to healthier foods. The article emphasizes that medical treatments address only part of a much larger system that influences food choices and eating patterns. It raises the broader question of how individual treatments can be paired with changes to the food environment.