Archive for November 9th, 2008
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Fat Loss Drugs not a promising deal
Hey everyone whose looking for fat loss drugs heres a heads up for ya. An exert from news.yahoo.com
“Designers of anti-obesity drugs have suffered three major setbacks, but the potential reward from treating the world’s fat epidemic is so great that their quest is unlikely to be deterred.
After investing a sum rumored to be in the hundreds of millions of Euros (dollars), Sanofi-Aventis of France announced last Wednesday it was abandoning its drug rimonabant, which had stoked huge expectations at its launch in 2006
The main causes of obesity — overconsumption of fatty or sugary food and a sedentary lifestyle — are well known. But the molecular machinery that drives it is in many ways obscure and, it is now suspected, more complex than thought.
Treating obesity entails a limited basket of options, from lifestyle changes to drugs and gastric-bypass surgery.
But when it comes to that middle choice, the most promising class of new prescription medicines for treating long-term obesity has just been wiped out.
Eleven years ago, the search for an obesity drug ran into controversy when fenfluramine, an appetite suppressant, was banned in the United States over fears of its effect on the heart. Last week, a study published in the journal BioMed Central found fenfluramine’s damage to cardiac valves was visible seven years later.
Such questions pose a dilemma for scientists much as they do for drug regulators.
Obesity is a huge and growing disease, for which people are clamoring for a quick fix. Yet it is also a complex disease, and no drug is without side effects to some degree. “
There you have it guyz, if you want fat loss you’ll have to work for it.
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Rapid fat loss for the year end
Hello everyone, Thanksgiving, Halloween and New Year are fast approaching. The prospect of merriment is jmouth watering but here something that will burst your bubble. From medicalnewstoday.com
“With Thanksgiving and end-of-the-year holidays coming soon, many Americans will eat, drink and get heavier. It is a challenging season for those working to control and reverse our nation’s obesity epidemic.
Luckily this is an opportune time to remind everyone of the problem and discuss ideas and projects to combat obesity, especially in children, according to organizers of the annual 15-state Southern Obesity Summit.
“Obesity is a major cause of death in the United States. Aside from mortality rates, however, obesity substantially increases sickness, disability and impaired quality of life,” said David Allison, Ph.D., director of UAB’s Clinical Nutrition Research Center and a summit organizer. “So much anti-obesity work has been done, but even more is needed, especially in the parts of the nation struggling with the epidemic like the South.” Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta show nearly two-thirds of all Americans are either overweight or obese. Nine of the 10 fattest states are in the South. The summit will highlight community-led health initiatives, school-based efforts, personal-responsibility messages and other tactics”
Guess we’ll all have to work on extra rapid weight loss then to look normal 
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