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From: wildbilly@withouta.net (Billy)
Doug Freyburger <dfreybur@yahoo.com> wrote:
effectsstudy
This article caught my eye because it mentions serotonin and that's
something Susan stresses. Whether it pans out or not (none of the
previous ones have lasted) increased study of how serotonin levels
interact with diet will be a good thing.
Here's a short exerpt ...
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter by Steven Reinberg
healthday Reporter – 27 mins ago
WEDNESDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- A weight-loss pill called
lorcaserin not only helps people drop pounds but does so with few side
effects, new industry-funded research reports.
A potential player in fighting the obesity epidemic, lorcaserin is a
new type of weight-loss drug that works by acting on serotonin, a
chemical associated with feelings of well-being and feeling full, and
does not appear to increase blood pressure or cause any other heart
problems, according to the researchers, whose work was sponsored by the
drug manufacturer.
Watcha' doin' Doug? Tryin' to commit suicide by newsgroup? I suspect
that the participants ate a low fat diet, since that seems to be
institutional wisdom, and the report was sponsored by Arena
Pharmaceuticals, of San Diego, Calif., which used its own doctors as
part of the study group. Serotonin or not, I don't think Susan will be
amused by the pill taking verses diet approach to weight loss.
"What's most impressive about this two-year clinical trial is how
unimpressive it is," said Dr. David L. Katz, director of the Prevention
Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine.
Nearly half of the people dropped out in the first year, he pointed out,
and by year two, more than half the remainder had also dropped out.
"Among those who remained, lorcaserin produced relatively modest weight
loss when combined with diet and exercise counseling, and that weight
loss was maintained in over half of the participants only so long as
they kept taking the drug. And the paper made no mention of the costs
attached to long-term pharmacotherapy," Katz added.
"This close look at lorcaserin reaffirms that better daily use of feet
and forks holds far greater promise for meaningful, sustainable and
affordable weight control than pharmacotherapy," Katz said.
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There you go, they lost a little weight, and they didn't go completely
nuts. An unqualified success, sorta ;O)
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
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