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...Diet pills got a bad name in the '70s, when doctors prescribed amphetamines (a.k.a. "speed") and their patients became addicted. Unlike amphetamines, which burn up extra calories by jacking up the body's metabolism, dexfenfluramine gets people to eat less food by shutting off appetite. It does this by triggering the release of serotonin, a brain chemical that induces feelings of fullness and satisfaction...
...weight control that reflects medicine's new understanding of obesity as a chronic disease rather than a failure of willpower. "Some people will need to take [weight-control] medications all their life, just as some need to take medication for hypertension," says Dr. Michael Hamilton, director of the Duke Diet and Fitness Center at Duke University. That could be an expensive proposition: a month's worth of Redux is expected to cost $75. Some who can improve their eating and exercise habits, Hamilton suggests, may eventually be able to wean themselves from the pills...
...expected to approve more diet drugs in the next few years. Knoll Pharmaceutical's sibutramine is a serotonin drug, like dexfenfluramine and its predecessor, fenfluramine. Roche Laboratories' orlistat uses a different approach: it binds to food in the intestines, blocking the absorption of about one-third of dietary...
...raining in Sydney, Australia, and Franklin Graham is nervous. Once he might have slugged back a Scotch; now a diet Coke will have to do. It is always tough being a stand-in, and worse still if you're substituting for a legend. In fact, when illness forced his father out of this series of revival meetings, the organizing committee in Sydney simply dissolved itself. Ultimately another group decided to take a chance on Franklin but moved the revival from a downtown venue that could have held 50,000 people to an open, grass amphitheater--no seats, just turf--with...
Maybe they shouldn't. It's not that antioxidants don't work. In fact, a report in the current New England Journal of Medicine says yet again that they do. After examining over seven years the health and diet of nearly 35,000 postmenopausal women, doctors from the University of Minnesota and several other institutions found that those with diets richest in vitamin E had a 62% lower chance of dying from coronary heart disease than those whose diets had the least...