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...reasons are many. A course of medication can be expensive - hundreds of dollars a year. Drugs also have side effects. Orlistat prompts weight loss by limiting the body's ability to absorb fat, but that can result in oily feces and sometimes incontinence. Sibutramine can raise blood pressure and lead to nausea and insomnia. Rimonabant is associated with an increased risk of psychiatric disorders like depression and anxiety. Still, Padwal says, "I think the main problem is the disappointment." For a lot of patients, the meager results of the medication don't justify their cost and unpleasantness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obesity Drugs Work — Modestly | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...viewers tend to associate the BBC with wonderfully acted period dramas like Sense and Sensibility and exquisite nature shows like Planet Earth. But how about Help Me Anthea--I'm Infested or Help, My Dog's as Fat as Me or Freaky Eaters? The latter programs have something in common besides the power of their titles to make BBC executives blush: they were all commissioned by the digital TV channel BBC3. Set up in 2003 to cater to those fickle younger audiences, BBC3 has scored several successes, including the exuberantly tasteless comedy Little Britain. Featuring such popular characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BBC's Blues | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...Fat Beats: New York’s home of underground hip-hop, located at the corner of 6th Ave. and 8th St., Manhattan, on the second floor. Shiftee’s favorite record store...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DJ Lingo for the Layman | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...which clocks in at 1 mbps or faster), but they are comparable to most DSL services, which tend to run at about 500 kbps (10 times as fast as dial-up). And BPL is a symmetrical service, meaning it's just as fast sending out digital photos and other fat files as it is bringing them in; cable and DSL services are typically much slower on the upstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Power Play | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...physical labor made me more humble and spiritually centered. It’s funny how well you can rationalize something when you’re scrubbing a toilet. Enough about me, though: just take a gander at Michael Gates Gill’s view of the hard-working commoner: fat, bald, and leaning on a mop. Either way, hidden in the title is a good recommendation for Harvardians: if we can learn to live like everyone else, then when the inevitable class revolution comes, we can simply dress up like them, too, and the proletariat will have to be content...

Author: By Samuel J. Bakkila, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

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