Download or read book Summary of Magic Pill by Johann Hari:The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs written by thomas francis and published by BookSummaryGr. This book was released on 2024-06-08 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic Pill As winter waned in 2022, a sense of hope emerged with the receding global pandemic, marked by the author's attendance at a party hosted by an Oscar-winning actor after a two-year hiatus. Amidst the crowd of middle-aged TV executives, actors' spouses, children, and agents, a striking transformation occurred—faces seemed to bear the clarity and sharpness of a Snapchat filter. The author pondered if this moment had been long anticipated by our culture. In ancient Greece, there was a belief in a substance facilitating slimness, lost to time, sparking a relentless pursuit throughout history to unlock the secret of weight control.