The Newest Ultimate diet pill
If food is your torture, relief may be on the way.
A new pill promises to help people lose weight by taking the edge off the cravings that make dieting so painful.
A bonus: Your blood pressure, blood glucose, and cholesterol level might drop, too.
The drug, rimonabant, fights the drive to overeat by blocking receptors in the brain that bring on the “munchies” when they’re activated by natural appetite-regulating chemicals.
Besides helping to control appetite, the body system that rimonabant acts upon plays a role in regulating weight and the breakdown of glucose and fat, as molecules called endocannabinoids bind to receptors in fat, muscle, the gastrointestinal tract, and the liver.
The system’s many functions may explain why people taking rimonabant see improvement in a range of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes-their blood glucose, their cholesterol readings-that can’t be explained by weight loss alone.
“There’s a growing body of evidence that in obesity the system is overactivated,” says Louis Aronne, a professor at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York who has studied rimonabant.
“What we’re doing with this treatment is to try to tone it down to a normal level.”
One hitch: Side effects reported include anxiety and depression.
Some experts worry that the trials haven’t looked at people who were depressed before starting the drug.
“You could make the argument that a lot of obese people have an increased tendency to be depressed,” says Stephen Woods, a professor of psychiatry and director of the Obesity Research Center at the University of Cincinnati.
“How the drug will affect the obese person who’s depressed is an unknown.”
So why do I put this here?? Pretty soon this is going to be the next Meridia or Phen Fen and people are going to be going crazy buying this thing and then a few years later they are going to find out it’s not so healthly afterall.? Just to keep you aware of what’s out there.
-Adam
The Ultimate Diet Pill? (US News & World Report)
If food is your torture, relief may be on the way. A new pill promises to help people lose weight by taking the edge off the cravings that make dieting so painful. A bonus: Your blood pressure, blood glucose, and cholesterol level might drop, too.
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