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Three times as many 6 to 17-year-olds are overweight now compared to 30 years ago & the epidemic of alarming proportions is only getting worse – some researchers project that nearly half of the kids in North America will weigh too much by 2010. Being fat can significantly impinge on kids’ daily way of life, [...]
Consumers and doctors need to know that illegal diet pills from South America may contain amphetamines, warns a U.S. physician.
The majority of amphetamine-based diet suppressants have been banned in the United States, but many are still prescribed in South America and other parts of the world, said Dr. Pieter Cohen, of Cambridge Health Alliance and [...]
Despite warnings from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, dangerous prescription diet pills from Brazil are actively circulated in the United States. A new report analyzes their contents and suggests that the medical consequences of these imported amphetamine-based diet pills might be greater than previously recognized.
The report, issued today by the Journal of General Internal [...]
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, makers of alli, the only FDA-approved over-the-counter weight loss product, supports the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking a recall of weight loss products that pose serious health risks, particularly during this New Year’s period, when many people are making resolutions to lose weight and purchasing products to help them.
GSK Consumer [...]
If you are currently taking a weight loss supplement or are considering doing so as part of a “New Year’s Resolution” to loss weight, RECONSIDER.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just released a list of more than 25 different products marketed for weight loss that should not be used. The [...]
Losing weight has always been a grueling task. You need to work hard for it and deviate from the regular lifestyle you are used to like the amount of food you consume in a day.
And if you are the type of person who is never a gym or exercise buff, then it is high time [...]
The possibility of psychiatric side effects may be to blame for the demise of two diet drugs designed for obesity treatment. French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis said it’s stopping all research on Accomplia – a diet drug sold in Europe. Just a few hours later, Pfizer Inc. announced it’s ending research on an experimental weight-loss drug in [...]
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