| Diet pill is now OTC
Some prescription weight loss drugs have been taken off the market because they can cause dangerous complications. There's better news for the drug Xenical, the FDA's allowing it to be sold over the counter. If you need some help battling the bulge, Xenical has been appropriately renamed Alli and starting this summer, you'll be able to buy it without a prescription. It works in your intestines, where it blocks fat from being digested. Plus, it really makes you watch what you eat because if you have too much fat, boy will you suffer. Doctor Jane Royalty with Saint Mary's Bariatric Center says she tells her patients to start taking Alli on the weekends so they can get used to the side effects she describes as, "Socially embarrassing." They are gas, fecal urgency, oily stools and frequent bowel movements.
Scam Alert: Diet Pills May Be Extremely Costly
(CBS) NEW YORK For millions of Americans, diet and exercise just doesn't cut it, which is why the diet pill business is booming and leaving plenty of room for manufacturers to make weighty promises. But CBS 2's Consumer Reporter Kirstin Cole has a warning about a diet aid thats only helping to lighten a dieter's wallet. "I received this email soliciting me to try this new diet aid," explains Theresa Reinhardt about an offers she says she couldn't refuse. "It was a free trial," she says. The free pills, called Phentrazine, promised to work like the powerful prescription drug, Phentermine, by increasing metabolism while suppressing the appetite. There is some evidence that green tea may help you with weight loss, but can Phentrazine really increase your metabolic rate by more than 75 percent and help you drop as much as 19 percent in total body fat, as the manufacturer claims? "Slim chance, "says Tod Cooperman, with the independent supplement testing firm, Consumer Lab.
Students, professor at odds over Nutrition 10 textbook
Feel like you've been scammed by a professor before? The students of Elizabeth Applegate's Nutrition 10 class, "Discoveries and Concepts in Nutrition," certainly feel that way.
Their concern arises from a controversy over the textbook for the class. The textbook, written by Applegate, costs $76 - and can't be sold back to the UC Davis Bookstore once students are through with it. This is because Applegate requires that students rip out and then turn in certain workbook pages of the textbook, rendering it useless to future students.
This, said Applegate, is exactly the idea behind the policy, which was instituted to "stop cheating and dishonesty by students." Applegate said that due to the nature of her class, cheating is something she must constantly address.
Excessive dieting before, during pregnancy may be bad for child ...
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Yonhap) -- Excessive dieting before and during pregnancy can lead to elevated risks for the unborn child to develop metabolic syndrome later in life, a medical paper by local researchers said Thursday.
The team led by Lee Yun-yong at the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences and Lee Hong-kyu at the department of medicine at Seoul University Hospital, said dieting has been found to adversely affect the mitochondria levels in tests conducted on lab animals. Mitochondria transform oxygen and nutrients into energy that fuels the body.
Researchers said such developments, if applied to humans, could raise the chances of children coming down with metabolic syndrome, which has been cited for causing high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and diabetes in adults.
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