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Diet pills and supplements - are any of them any good? (87 posts)

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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5 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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15 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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6 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

Tesofensine: New Miracle Weight Loss Drug?

Weight loss drugs have been something of a flop. Between Acomplia being ordered off the shelves for making people mad, and the lackluster performance of the other popular weight loss drugs - there hasn't been much to celebrate for the pharmaceutical companies *cue crocodile tears.

That is until now... maybe.

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25 comments · October 28, 2008

Which Supplements Actually Work?

Lately I've been trying to feel better so I've been eating a lot of vitamins... do you know how many vitamins you have to eat before you feel full?... the colour of my urine is amazing..." - Steven Wright

I have to admit, I'm skeptical - some would say jaded over the hundreds of thousands of "miracles in a bottle" being foisted on us with exaggerated, misleading and flat-out false claims.

There are, however a few exceptions - some diamonds in the rough that are worth looking in to. Bear in mind that supplementation is highly individual and that "supplement" should imply that you are adding to an already healthy and varied diet. With this in mind, here are some supplements to consider:

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38 comments · August 26, 2008

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