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This product is for the committed consumer -- the consumer who truly is interested in following a low-fat, low-calorie diet plan and improving their lifestyle," said Dr. Rebecca Reeves, a registered dietician with Baylor College of Medicine.

The over-the-counter version will be called alli. It is not as strong as prescription strength pills.

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The makers of Xenical wanted to bring the drug to the non-prescription market because sales have declined over the last few years. Xenical is one of the newer diet pills that blocks the absorption of fat; it was approved for prescription usage in 1999. Up until that time, one of the most widely prescribed diet drugs was a combination Phentermine and Fenfluramine better known as Fen-phen. Fen-Phen effected serotonin levels while decreasing a persons appetite. The drug was somewhat effective, but had very serious and sometimes fatal side effects like causing heart valve disease. Fenfluramine was blamed for causing the disorder and was taken off the market around 2000. Phentermine is still used and still widely prescribed today; the side effects of the drug are numerous and can include agitation, glaucoma, cardiovascular disease,

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Ms. Smith, whose legal name was Vickie Lynn Marshall, had weathered some difficult times of late, including a tempestuous struggle in the United States Supreme Court for access to her deceased husbands fortune, the death in September of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Wayne Smith, a pending paternity suit over her infant daughter, and just this week, being named in a class-action lawsuit against TrimSpa, the diet-pill company for which she was a spokeswoman. The lawsuit alleges the marketing of the product, TrimSpa X32, was false or misleading.

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And because of the popularity of diet supplements like Stacker 2, the Bergen County Prosecutor is focused on stopping the sale of counterfeit pills. In this case the prosecutors office says 5000 bottles of it is now out of circulation along with more than 3 million dollars in cash.

Stacker 2 diet pills, the real ones are increasingly popular with teenagers who are trying to get in shape for high school sports.

The ring was selling a fake brand of a dietary supplement popular with high school and college athletes, a drug claiming to contain ephedra.

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The director of Public Citizens Health Research Group says the plans to market a non-prescription version are a "dangerous mistake" in light of what he calls the products "marginal benefits. " He also says the diet pill can have "bothersome adverse reactions. "

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A health research advocate is calling the governments decision to approve an over-the-counter version of a diet pill the "height of recklessness. "

Officials stress that it needs to be used in combination with a diet and exercise program -- and that using the pill alone isnt likely to do any good.

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Over the counter weight loss pills, its a billion dollar business. But now for the first time the government has approved a diet pill to be sold without a prescription.

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Dr. Thomas Wadden, at the University of Pennsylvanias Weight center, said Alli is safe and is meant for people who seriously want to lose weight and are committed to eating a low fat, low calorie diet over a ten week period.

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WASHINGTON You wont need a doctors approval for the fat-blocking diet pill the government has approved for over the counter sales.

Capsules of orlistat will now be sold in a lower, nonprescription dose under the name Alli. The drug has been available by prescription as Xenical. Its intended for people 18 and older to use along with a reduced-calorie, low-fat diet and exercise.

Its the first time regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have allowed direct sales of a version of a diet drug that had been available only by prescription.

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The government on Wednesday approved over-the-counter sales of the fat-blocking diet pill orlistat, allowing direct sales for the first time of a version of a diet drug that had been available only by prescription.

The Food and Drug Administration said the most common side effect of the product is a change in bowel habits. Eating a low fat diet will reduce the likelihood of this side effect.

OTC orlistat, along with diet and exercise, may aid overweight adults who seek to lose excess weight to improve their health," he said.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Anna Nicole Smith and the diet products company TrimSpa Inc. have been sued in a class-action lawsuit alleging their marketing of a weight loss pill is false or misleading.

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I think I even saw a diet where you hold your breath until you turn blue. I believe it was called The you cant breathe so you cant eat weight loss program. I am not sure about that one. I myself have tried every diet known to man. I always get worried to read about the latest supplement that the FDA has declared worthless for losing weight because I have eaten railroad cars full of all of them in a futile attempt to shed my tremendous bulk. Diet programs are all the same. They show you pictures of people who resemble the Hindenburg in the before shots who look like starving refugees in the after photos. The fine print reads as individuals vary so does weight loss. These results are not typical.

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