{
  "id": 982918,
  "title": "‘A tax on being thin’: only high earners make overall savings on food bills from weight-loss drugs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/a-tax-on-being-thin-only-high-earners-make-overall-savings-on-food-982918",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-15T07:00:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
    "slug": "guardian-science",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/15/high-earners-savings-weight-loss-drugs-income-glp-1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Users need discretionary income of nearly £100,000 a year to make savings on their grocery spend after paying £1,200 for GLP-1s, analysis finds The high cost of weight-loss medication is a “regressive tax on being thin” because the outlay outweighs any saving on food costs for all but the highest earners. Someone needs to have discretionary income of nearly £100,000 a year to actually save money…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Health",
        "title": "‘A tax on being thin’: only high earners make overall savings on food bills from weight-loss drugs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/a-tax-on-being-thin-only-high-earners-make-overall-savings-on-food",
        "published": "2026-08-15T07:00:50.000Z"
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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."
}