I’ve been learning a lot from Ven. Sunyo’s recent essays and posts focusing on the aggregates & the four noble truths.
(Can I mention his interpretation of “experience” in Pali – that is, the lack of evidence for use of this sense of the term in the suttas 
? A delightful and gentle rebuttal of other translators’ word choice.)
Anyway, he offers additional, valuable insight via a recent Q/A thread on the “cessation” of suffering. I won’t quote it over here. Suffice to say it’s worth reviewing if one’s interested in this aspect of the 4NTs.
I am.
I’m observing, here in the US, the disappearance of people’s bodies through weight-loss drugs. I’m not referring to people who medically qualify due to Type II diabetes.
I’m talking about people who ostensibly are using the drugs for body-shaping. Off-market options for obtaining them proliferate – it’s like a new street drug. Especially for affluent white people.
There’s almost a new cultural norm developing that it’s expected you start taking them around a certain age when weight gain happens through the aging process. Aging bodies are disappearing all around me.
It’s my understanding that the drug – whatever brand name variety – tells the brain that eating food is toxic. (Hence some of the side effects.) Appetite reduces to almost nothing.
Thus the cessation of craving food (much less wanting it at all).
I read about some people experiencing relief if not elation over the cessation of craving – it even bleeds into addictive craving for other substances, apparently. In that regard, it holds promise for helping people get sober.
However, the cessation of food craving happens outside any moral or ethical framework – outside any “realization” context. That is, people are not encouraged or taught to use this opportunity to reflect on the craving itself.
Here, in full view, we have a country of (wealthy) people obsessed with the pleasures of food – and the accompanying rituals – while making their bodies disappear at the same time.
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