When it's hard to eat, Elizabeth Huggins, a registered dietitian, nutritionist and certified diabetes educator at Hilton Head Health told USA TODAY, "Relax a little, and you eat foods that you can tolerate." The rest of the time, she advises concentrating on quality, whole, plant-forward foods
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To date, incretin-based approaches for obesity management appear as the most promising and rapidly developing (Supplementary Table 1), with innovations such as once-weekly (OW) injectable triple GIPR/GCGR/GLP-1R agonist retatrutide (LY3437943), cagrilintide (long-acting amylin analogue)/semaglutide 2.4 mg (CagriSema) combination, GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists, high-dose oral semaglutide, and oral non-peptide GLP-1 receptor agonist orforglipron, with relevant implications in terms of patients compliance and environmental sustainability