Water with benefits💧
This Week in Review☕️: Gatorade expands sports drink brand | The Most Valuable company in Europe | Weight loss drug market is exploding | New Covid vaccine approved | Powerful Earthquake rocks Morocco
Quick Bites:
Beverages💧: Gatorade expands sports drink brand with water.
The PepsiCo-owned brand, best known for its neon-bright drinks like Fierce Grape or Frost Glacier Cherry, is expanding with 'all day hydration'.
So as it turns out guys, Jell-o shots are in fact, NOT good enough to stay hydrated🙄
Key Highlights, according to CNN:
💡Gatorade Water is electrolyte-infused, unflavoured and alkaline
💡Filtered via a 7-step filtration process and with enhanced pH levels
💡The brand is tapping into the growing “functional water” category (water with perceived health benefits) that’s projected to reach $18 billion in sales in the next 2 years
💡Primarily for athletes who want specific benefits like quicker recovery and improved gut health
Brands like 'SmartWater' have gone viral in recent years for boasting added electrolytes and superior hydration, all in great packaging.
The popularity has risen even further because of celebrities and social media influencers claiming it helps with weight loss, better skin and even preventing chronic diseases like cancer.
Our Thoughts💡: Pepsi is launching it's new alkaline water to see if you're a retarded goat they can rip off 💰
The only silver lining: You can now find out which one if your friends buys it and is a complete dumba**..🤦🏻♀️
Healthcare 💊: Weight-loss drug market expected to hit $100 billion by 2030.
Guess the lockdowns and Dunkin' giving a free glazed to anyone who got the jam didn't help, did it?
PS. People will literally do ANYTHING other than eat in a calorie deficit and go for a walk
The maker of Ozempic and Wegovy "Novo Nordisk" officially became Europe's most valuable company last week.
With it's market cap surpassing $421 billion, the Danish drugmaker overtook LVMH, which held the #1 spot since 2021.
Y'all think the Ozempic miracle is that you can lose all your flab via a few injections?
The real miracle is that it's generating an 85% gross profit margin and single-handedly stopping Denmark form going into a full-blown recession.
The company who makes it, is worth more than Denmark 🇩🇰
Nearly 42% of adults and 20% of children in the US are affected by obesity, according to the CDC.
New prescriptions for Wegovy and Ozempic have jumped nearly 300% and 140%, respectively, in just over a year.
Pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Amgen are also working on weight-loss drugs.
Our Thoughts💡: Umm.. we're gonna get off the couch, stop scrolling thru bikini models on Instagram and hit the damn gym 💪🏻
Yep, it's gon’ be as good as death but we also won't look ike saggy Emperor Palpatine after 6 months of hard work 🙏🏻
Also.. in Healthcare 💉: Dear MAGA supporters, please ignore this message. For everyone else: The FDA just approved updated Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-/BioNTech.
We're good. Not interested in taking a vaccine that needs annual updates like an iPhone.
This comes amid reports of a spike in Covid-19 cases. Data this week:
💡New cases: 252, 903
💡Hospitalized: 11,558
💡ICU: 1,577
💡Deaths: 803
Once the CDC approves this vaccine, the Biden administration plans to encourage the public to take the shot.
Hard pass.. We gonna stick with our functional immune system and count on Kourtney Kardashian's Vitamin gummies to stay alive
Key Highlights, according to CNBC:
💡The new vaccine targets Omicron variant XBB.1.5
💡It is approved for people 12 years and older
💡Can be used for authorised emergency use for children from 6 months-11 years old 💡Won't be called "boosters"; anticipating public resistance to another round of vaccines
💡Available to the the masses mid-September
Our Thoughts💡: While big pharma rolls out new shots, recent data showed cannabis compounds prevented Covid infection.
Alright guys, whose in? Like Jimmy Kimmel said: "All this time we've been listening to the C.D.C, we should have been eating CBD!" 🍁
Sports 🎾: 19-year old Coco Gauff wins her 1st US Open title.
Gauff became the youngest American women's US Open champion since Serena Williams in 1999.
GET IT GIRL 🙌🏻
Just as the Williams sisters carved the way, Coco Gauff is igniting a new era of inspiration for young female players across the world. Made even more special on her home soil!
Concrete jungle.. where dreams are made of💯
What a beast and great achievement for American tennis🙌🏻 Lord knows the US needed it🙏🏻
“Thank you to New York. You guys pulled me through this gas fire. The supporters that I have mean so much to me.”
Not to be forgotten, Gauff thanked the appluading crowd at Arthur Ashe stadium after receiving a $3 million check for winning the match.
World 🌎 : Powerful earthquake strikes Morocco.
Africa's northern coast was ravaged by two disasters over the weekend: heavy flooding in Libya and a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco.
In Libya💡: Mediterranean 'Storm Daniel' led to the collapse of two dams near the coastal town of Derna, where more than 5,000 people have been reported missing, officials said Monday.
In Morocco💡: The earthquake death toll crossed 2,800 as aid to the remote and hard-hit Atlas Mountains was low to arrive.
In addition, another 4.9-magnitude aftershock was recorded 19 minutes after the earthquake.
Tremors were also felt in the capital Rabat, as well as in Casablanca and Essaouira, BBC.
This has been the deadliest earthquake in Morocco in 60 years
Quicker Bites:
Kim Jong Un travels to Russia, his bulletproof train spotted ahead of Putin meeting.
Passengers evacuated on runway at Singapore airport.
Instacart IPO aims as high as $9.3bn.
Google antitrust suit goes to trial.
Protests grip Israel ahead of historic Supreme Court session.
US advances deal with Iran to swap prisoners, free frozen oil funds.
Memorial events mark 22 years since the 9/11 terror attacks.
Novak Djokovic topped Daniil Medvedev to win his 24th Grand Slam.
Elon Musk confirms he and Grimes have had a third child.