What Doctors Don't Tell You...
Overweight people often dream about a magic bullet that will make them slim overnight. But dexfenfluramine is one bullet that can be hit or miss, sometimes with serious consequences. ...
Medicine peddles two types of drugs to help us lose weight: amphetamines and drugs which act on the central nervous system as appetite suppressants. Many are potentially addictive, and cause heada ...
Obese people who take an appetite suppressant for more than three months increase by 30 times their chances of developing primary pulmonary hypertension, a usually fatal condition affecting the ar ...
Slimming pills don't work. Obese people regain any weight they lose as soon as they come off the pills, the US national task force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity has concluded. ...
