Diet pills news 2009-02

2009-02-16 Alli and Phenocal Taking a Huge Bite Out of Weight-Loss Market

For the millions of consumers around the planet that checked off weight-loss as their number one goal during the New Year, the resounding retail numbers are staggering in favor of two of the leading diet pills: Alli (a newer diet pill made by GlaxoSmithKline), and Phenocal, (a groundbreaking diet pill manufactured by Pharmaxa Labs--a leading nutraceutical company). In light of many diet pill recalls, combined with the many side effects that are associated with popular prescribed weight-loss drugs, the high sales of both Phenocal and Alli should come as no surprise. Both are available over-the-counter, and both are void of any dangerous side effects. However, Alli is a fat-blocker, and works by using enzymes in the body to block a quarter of the fat that is ingested, whereas Phenocal actually suppresses the appetite and boosts the

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2009-02-18 Embargoed news from Annals of Internal Medicine

There is no magic pill for weight loss. Some studies have shown that obese patients can achieve greater weight-loss success with a combination of pharmacotherapy and a lifestyle modification program that includes a low-calorie diet, increased physical activity, and behavioral changes. Researchers measured weight loss in 376 obese patients taking a daily dose of sibutramine to determine which method of delivering support for a lifestyle modification program would produce the most weight loss. Patients were randomly assigned to high-frequency face-to-face counseling, low-frequency face-to-face counseling, high-frequency telephone counseling, high-frequency e-mail counseling, or no dietician contact. After six months, the patients assigned to high-frequency telephone contact with a dietician lost the same amount of weight as those

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2009-02-11 Vitamins Do Older Women Little Good - US News and World Report

Women can be encouraged by the fact that these vitamins seem to do no harm, but they also seem to confer no benefit," said study co-author Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, a professor of epidemiology and population health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. "The kind of vitamins you get from diet is quite different, because foods are very complex and have a lot of chemicals we dont know about that interact with each other. (Eating a varied diet) is not the same as distilling it into a pill. The message is to eat a well-balanced diet, exercise and maintain weight. "

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2009-02-08 Why shedding a few pounds might be the key to a good nights sleep Mail Online

Advising snorers and those who regularly feel sleepy during the day to think about dieting if they are overweight, he said: This appears to be a fairly straightforward relationship, and while we would not necessarily recommend the severe caloric restriction used in our study to every patient, one of the first treatment for a sleep disorder that should be considered in the overweight patient is clearly weight loss.

Researcher Dr Henri Tuomilehto said: A very low calorie diet combined with active lifestyle counselling resulting in marked weight reduction is a feasible and effective treatment for the majority of patients with mild obstructive sleep disorder.

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The key to a good nights sleep could be keeping trim, doctors say. Poor sleepers who followed a low calorie diet and exercised regularly slept better and felt better, a study found. And the more weight people lost, the better they slept. - Why shedding pounds key good nights sleep

2009-02-22 The Sheriffs office reports fraud of elderly woman to FBI

Lt. Ed Ogle said the woman received a phone call in early January from a person supposedly offering her a bargain on diet pills. The caller said the weight loss pills normally would cost usd. 500 a month, but she could get a two-month supply for that price if she immediately sent the money by a wire transfer.

The Food and Drug Administration would regulate diet pills and the Drug Enforcement Administration would investigate illegal drugs.

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2009-02-24 Vitamins are not of equal value - The Boston Globe

People should strive to get an adequate intake of nutrients, including vitamins and minerals, from food rather than supplements," said Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospital, and a principal investigator in the study. Taking vitamin pills may be a good "insurance policy" for people who have bad diets, she said, but hold little value for the rest of us.

The same people who routinely take vitamin pills - health-conscious consumers who already have a good diet - are least likely to need them, researchers say. That holds true for children, too, a recent survey found.

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2009-02-22 Group effort necessary to combat falsehoods in the weight-loss industry

Its easy to laugh at these fat-reducing methods from yesteryear. But what isnt funny is that people -- many, many people -- continue to be duped by the massive diet industry into believing that this device or that pill will painlessly solve their obesity problems once and for all.

An editorial in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal rightly takes aim at this sorry situation. Written by physicians Yoni Freedhoff and Arya Sharma -- who, it should be noted, run weight-management programs -- the editorial mentions that many people in the diet-industry manipulate consumers and thereby "cultivate unreasonable expectations and false beliefs. "

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2009-02-14 French paradox uncorked - Peterborough Examiner - Ontario, CA

Several red wine pills are available, but studies show some brands provide only small amounts of resveratrol. Ive relied on the work of seven international nutritionists and their book The Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements. They analyzed and rated 500 vitamin products. No company hit the perfect score 100. One company, Vitamin Research Products, reached 93. 1. Its product, Extension Resveratrol, also contains red wine polyphenols that act synergistically with resveratrol and quercetin to prolong the action of resveratrol in the body.

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2009-02-19 Fad diets: Experts offer the skinny on what works -- South Florida

She tried a version of the "fen-phen" diet. Fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine (in combination with phentermine) were marketed as diet drugs that curbed appetite. Resnick also ate one meal a day. "Whatever I wanted," she says. (In 1997,

Bad enough that this diet caused medical controversy. When a person eats only one meal a day, its often unhealthy, unbalanced and high in fat and refined carbohydrates. Also, people can become reliant on pills. Once off them, the appetite can be more ravenous.

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Just to remind you that extreme diets are unhealthy and seldom work over the long haul, we asked South Floridians to describe some of their attempts to shed pounds. - United States Sandwiches Health Health Organizations Foods and Beverages Lifestyle and Leisure Tomatoes Western Medicines Obesity Medicine health features weight loss exercise fad diets