{
  "id": 9093172,
  "title": "Wegovy, Mounjaro help Korean doctor navigate lifelong struggle with obesity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/wegovy-mounjaro-help-korean-doctor-navigate-lifelong-struggle-with-9093172",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-22T05:57:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/health/20260922/wegovy-mounjaro-help-korean-doctor-navigate-lifelong-struggle-with-obesity"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "For the majority of his life, Korean doctor Chang Hyoung-woo struggled with obesity. His after-school meals were consistently heavy, featuring grilled pork belly, instant noodles with rice cakes, dumplings and cheese, and copious amounts of rice in the remaining broth. This meal pattern, reminiscent of sumo wrestlers and traditional Korean ssirum wrestlers, was his primary indulgence from childhood. In contrast to his peers who spent time outdoors, Chang preferred indulging in fried chicken, hamburgers, red meat, snacks, cola and ice cream. He found no appeal in mixed meat and vegetable meals like sukiyaki or shabu-shabu, questioning the practice of spoiling quality meat with unwanted greens.",
  "summary": "The after school meal never varied. He laid grilled pork belly in the largest pan in the kitchen to grill. After finishing the meat, he made instant noodles, tossing in generous helpings of rice cakes, dumplings and cheese before finishing the meal by stirring cooked rice into the remaining broth. As a high school student, Chang Hyoung-woo cooked this meal alone in the kitchen whenever he could,…",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Wegovy, Mounjaro help Korean doctor navigate lifelong struggle with obesity",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/wegovy-mounjaro-help-korean-doctor-navigate-lifelong-struggle-with",
        "published": "2026-09-22T05:47:03.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}