‘A tax on being thin’: only high earners make overall savings on food bills from weight-loss drugs

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1. Sat, 15 August 2026

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   • The Guardian World07:00first to report
     ‘A tax on being thin’: only high earners make overall savings on food bills from weight-loss drugs

     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 after covering the £1,200 annual cost of GLP-1 medication, according to an analysis by the...