Don't get hoodwinked by Hoodia! - You do NOT need to suppress your appetite or eat less to lose excess weight! - Just eat less salt/sodium.

Dieting does not work.

Dieting is harmful.

Dieting results in weight gain.

Read the evidence. - See Scientists Say Dieting Does Not Work or any of the other reports about what actually happens to people's weight when they diet in order to lose excess weight.

You are not overweight because of overeating; you are overweight because of fluid retention.

Just eat less salt! - You will lose excess water and thus lose weight safely and surely.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and heart, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Wider implications of the flawed theory that excess calorie intake causes obesity

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The slimming drug, Rimonabant/Acomplia, an appetite suppressant, causes depression and other adverse symptoms, and is not much good for losing weight.

Study links slimming drug to depression

Extract from the Telegraph:

"The safety of a slimming drug taken by tens of thousands of people in UK has been questioned after new research linked it to a 40 per cent increase in the risk of depression.

Rimonabant, marketed as Acomplia, is an appetite surpressant prescribed on the NHS for people who are obese.

Research carried out in Denmark involving records of 4105 people found that although the patients on the drug lost 4.7kg (10lbs) more than those on a dummy pill, they were much more likely to suffer psychological problems.

Patients on rimonabant were 2.5 times more likely to stop taking their medication due to depression and were three times more likely to stop because of anxiety.

The Danish research is published in The Lancet medical journal accompanies an editorial by Australian experts saying the study 'raises major questions about the safety of rimonabant in obese people'.

In 2006 over one million prescriptions were written for obesity drugs in England alone."

The objective of an appetite suppressant drug is to get the person taking it to eat less food/fewer calories than their body requires. If it succeeds in this objective - getting someone to eat less food than their body requires - it should be no surprise that the person feels depressed. - You, too, would probably feel pretty miserable if you were eating less food than your body required. - Eating less food than your body requires? - Go figure! - It's not likely to do you any good, is it? - Dieting makes you tired, cold, hungry - and depressed. - It doesn't make you slim...

It's easy for obese people to lose weight without any adverse side-effects if they give up dieting completely, and concentrate instead on giving up eating salt/sodium and salty food. Obese people who do this seriously lose about a stone (14 pounds) in the first month! - One woman, Joyce Barnard, lost 5 stone (70 pounds) in a year by doing this! - She completely stopped sprinkling salt onto her meals and she used LoSalt instead of ordinary salt in her cooking. - That is all she did. - You'd never get weight loss like that by using appetite suppressants!

I think it's scandalous that the NHS is wasting money and damaging people's health by paying for this pharmaceutical junk to be prescribed to innocent patients.

Lose weight and improve your health in many ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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In obesity, the brain is unaware of body fat, it is claimed.

In obesity, the brain is unaware of body fat - from the New Scientist.

Extract:

"A high-fat diet can desensitise the brain to appetite-suppressing hormones, effectively leaving the brain unaware of obesity, a study in mice has found. "

I must confess I don't think research on mice can have a lot of relevance to what happens in people. - I must also assert firmly that appetite suppression is a dangerous route for obese people to take in the hope of losing excess weight, whatever anyone else says.

Here are safe, effective, reliable ways to lose excess weight, both of which work on real people. (I have no idea whether they work on mice!)

1. - Eat less salt/sodium and make sure you eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. - This removes some of the excess water from the blood stream, i.e. it reduces the sodium retention and fluid retention which are the cause of obesity. You will lose weight fast! This is the best way of losing weight because it is addresses the actual cause of the obesity.

2. - Increase the amount of calcium-rich food you eat. - This has the effect of increasing the proportion of fat excreted in the faeces. - This was a research finding covered in the recent BBC2 series The Truth about Food. - See http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/humanbody/truthaboutfood/ The researchers recommended eating more low fat yoghurt as a good source of calcium. (Don't get that VERY low fat yoghurt that is laden with dodgy chemical additives - just get the ordinary low fat yoghurt.)

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! (You do NOT need to reduce calories! )
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