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With the market for anti-obesity drugs already worth billions, a timely book explores the controversial medicines, finds Alexandra Thompson Book Off the Scales Aimee Donnellan HarperCollins, UK; St. Martin’s Press, US I’M NOT looking to get into a debate about how well old comedy shows have aged. But when I rewatch Friends, I feel uncomfortable at how Monica is depicted as a younger person: not just overweight, but laughable, greedy, lazy and, frankly, unattractive. More than two decades on from the final episode of the iconic series, I am optimistic that the tide is turning on how society responds to people who are overweight or have obesity. And I wonder if some of that is due to drugs like Ozempic. …