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• The Download: GLP-1s and eating disorders, self-aware cities, and forever chemicals

  30-10-2026 12:30 via MIT Technology Review
  
  This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinicians, they can represent something sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders.A new report suggests the global incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa shot up by 71% be
  
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• Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.

  30-10-2026 10:00 via MIT Technology Review
  
  GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential trigger for eating disorders.A new report suggests that the global incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa shot up between 1990 and 2023—by a whopping 71%. By 2023, there were an estimated 18.1 million people living with one of these two disorders.What’s worse is that the number is likely to be much hi
  
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