Dietary Supplements for Weight Loss
Dietary Supplements for Weight Loss
Dietary supplements are popular products for weight loss. These products are often promoted with elaborate advertising campaigns, often using celebrity endorsements that promise consumers they will lose weight and feel wonderful. Many people believe that since these products are “natural,” they are safe. The reality is that “natural”means [...]
Diet Pills and the FDA
Diet Pills and the FDA
Each year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight—it is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions. Many people start off with great intentions, but within months, weeks, or even days, most of them give up and return to their usual habits. If they work to lose [...]
Phenylpropanolamine
Phenylpropanolamine
Phenylpropanolamine is similar to amphetamine, but does not cause euphoria and does not have the same potential for abuse. Phenylpropanolamine was used as a cough and cold agent initially, since it relieves congestion associated with the common cold. Before long, people realized that it caused appetite suppression and that they were able to lose [...]
AMPHETAMINE-LIKE WEIGHT LOSS PRODUCTS
AMPHETAMINE-LIKE WEIGHT LOSS PRODUCTS
Amphetamines, which were introduced in 1938, rapidly became the most widely used agents for the treatment of obesity in the United States. Amphetamine (Figure ) is a stimulant that causes the release of the neurotransmitter norepinephrinein the brain, which leads to increased metabolism and increased energy expenditure, or burning of [...]
Diet Pill Acomplia Now Widely Available in Mexican Border Pharmacies
Diet drug Acomplia (rimonabant) , which seems at best months away from sale in the United States, is now widely available in pharmacies just across the Mexican border.
Readers increasingly are sending us reports on their experiences purchasing the highly anticipated diet pill in Mexican towns just across [...]
How Diet Pills Work
How Diet Pills Work
In the quest for the perfect diet pill, scientists, doctors, and those who are going to use these drugs need to understand how diet pills work. Knowing what actions a drug takes and how it affects the body helps scientists and doctors understand what side effects the [...]
Causes of Obesity-Environmental Factors
Causes of Obesity-Environmental Factors
Along with genetics, environmental factors have been found to contribute to obesity. In particular, increased food consumptionand an inactive (sedentary) lifestyle are environmental factors that very closely correlate with an increased risk of obesity.Americans have an ever-increasing number of energydense foods, packaged in enormous portions, conveniently available at low [...]
2d Generic Version of Diet Pill Rimonabant (Acomplia / Zimulti) Launched in India
ond Acomplia (rimonabant) Indian pharmaceutical company, Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd., has announced that it also is selling a generic version of the new Sanofi-Aventis diet drug Acomplia (rimonabant) under the name Rimoslim.
The news, which attracted little attention in the West, occurred almost simultaneously with last week’s announcement by Zydus [...]
