The Wild World of Weight Loss and the Lure of Aspiration

From vibrating pills to injectable unknown substances, all promising a New You

Sigh. It’s that time of year. The time that so many people are prevailed upon to try to shrink themselves—which almost always fails in the long term—for capitalist profit. Some 20% of New Year’s Resolutions are explicitly to lose weight; another 23% are to get healthier, which is often code for… you guessed it, weight loss. (And with nearly 40% of Ameri…