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Diet pills and supplements - are any of them any good? (89 posts)

Antioxidants: Bad for Diabetics?

Antioxidant vitamins, the once promising antidote to heart disease and cancer have become the red-headed stepchildren in the world of nutritional research. The latest bad news is that not only is it NOT effective for diabetics, it may actually worsen it.

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11 comments · November 2, 2009

Contrave: A New Miracle Weight Loss Pill?

Drug companies know that a pot of gold is up for grabs if they can only develop a break-through weight loss drug.

It looks like Contrave, one such contender, is one step closer to getting approval from the FDA which will open the drug up for sale in the USA.

At the end of a 56 week treatment study 48.2% of participants lost at least 10% of their body weight.

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5 comments · October 26, 2009

Fat-Burning Supplement Warning

The FDA is investigating "the potential relationship between Hydroxycut dietary supplements and liver injury or other potentially serious side effects" according to the issued warning.

There has been 1 death and 23 serious incidences reported, including severe jaundice and liver damage requiring transplant as well as seizures and rhabdomyolysis.

Iovate Health Sciences has responded by pulling 14 of their Hydroxycut products from the shelves. Iovate says that they had sold approximately 9 million units of the recalled products in 2008.

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10 comments · May 4, 2009

Alli and Appisat Approved For Over-the-Counter Sale in UK

Two diet drugs, Alli and Appisat, will go on sale in chemists for the first time in the UK this week. Previously, both drugs have been prescription-only.

But are they likely to help hopeful dieters - or just add to the credit crunch strain on wallets?

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7 comments · April 20, 2009

Resveratrol: Fountain of Youth or Waste of Money

Red wine drinkers have been toasting to better health and longer life with all of the news pieces on the miracle that is resveratrol - a component of red grape skin and some other fruits. Let's sift through the claims and hype and see where the dust settles.

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12 comments · March 13, 2009

Xenical Diet Pill Leads to Poorer Diet

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Diet pills, they've had a rough go of it, links to heart disease, kids using them to get high, gross bowel movements and doubt as to whether they even work, a marketer's nightmare. Time for more bad news!

A new study suggests the popular diet drug Orlistat, sold under the prescription name Xenical, doesn't inspire people to improve their diets, instead individuals popping Xenical are more likely to eat worse. How's that for irony.

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20 comments · February 27, 2009

Can Spoof Weight Loss Sites Combat Real Scammers?

The Office of Fair Trading, a UK based consumer protection group, has come up with a unique way to fight weight loss charlatans - by inundating the web with their own brand of sketchy weight loss systems.

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7 comments · February 23, 2009

28 Tainted Weight Loss Pills

The FDA recently issued a warning about a number of tainted diet supplements. Many of the products claim to be "natural" or contain only "herbal" ingredients - but actually contain pharmaceutical ingredients.

An FDA analysis found that the undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients in some of these products include sibutramine (a controlled substance), rimonabant (a drug not approved for marketing in the United States), phenytoin (an anti-seizure medication), and phenolphthalein (a solution used in chemical experiments and a suspected cancer causing agent). Some of the amounts of active pharmaceutical ingredients far exceeded the FDA-recommended levels, putting consumers' health at risk.

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19 comments · January 5, 2009

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