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The bizarre thing that happens when people take diet drugs
In 2007, the Food and Drug administration approved the first ever over-the-counter diet drug. Alli, as the pill was (and still is) called, could be taken by anyone, without a prescription. And it worked, so long as those who took it also maintained a healthy lifestyle. That last bit—persuading people who take diet drugs to also eat well and exercise—is the oft overlooked key with weight-loss remedies. And GlaxoSmithKline, which manufactures the drug, knew it.
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Here's an article that uses — an an example of a successful, effective and responsible diet drug — Alli, which gave so many of its takers uncontrollable urgency to void their bowels that the manufacturer could only suggest that people taking the drug “wear dark pants.”
An article that bases its undergirding message, an attack on supplements, with junk science by the New York attorney general’s office.
Cramping and straining to label everything else as ‘snake oil,’ urging us desperately to place absolute faith in, specifically, GlaxoSmithKline’s Olestra-in-pill-form ‘Alli,’ I’ve gotta say this article makes a bit of a dark streak stain itself.