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Drugs on Health

Drug user of one of the drugs, Alli, can drop off 3lb a week, concording to its producer GlaxoSmithKline. This equalises to more than three stones over four months.

The drug, which is a £1.60-a-day diluted version of the prescription-only drug Xenical, works by abridging the body’s ability to serve fat by about 25 per cent.
The undigested fat passes straight through and through the body, producing what is described as “an urgent need to go to the bathroom”.

Professor Gareth Williams, prof of medicine at the University of Bristol and the author of Obesity: Science To Practice, said that the fallouts are so severe that “perhaps few users will even finish their first pack of Alli, let alone buy a second”.

More seriously, he said: “The dose may effort only a small and transeunt downward blip in the differently inexorable climb in weighting.

“Selling anti-obesity drugs over the counter will perpetuate the myth that obesity can be fixed simply by popping a pill and could further undermine efforts to advertise healthy living, which is the only long-term shake off obesity,” Prof Williams wrote in the British Medical Journal.

He said that real world weight loss may not be as spectacular as in clinical test.

“Dieters in these trials are highly propelled and under medical supervision,” he said. “People … taking it without medical supervising may achieve an average daily energy shortfall of only 100kcal – equivalent to leaving some French fries on a plate, eating an apple rather than ice cream, or (depending on enthusiasm and physical fitness) having 10 to 20 minutes of sex.”

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