Obesity drug, Reductil (Sibutramine), an appetite suppressant, is being withdrawn from use in UK because of risk of heart attack and stroke

BBC News reports that "the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has told doctors to stop prescribing sibutramine and review its use in patients already taking it." And ""Pharmacists are asked to cease dispensing the medicine."

It has been used by 86,000 people in the past year. Since ALL obesity drugs are harmful and unnecessary, it makes me think things must be really bad for the MHPRA to ban its use.

If you are overweight/obese and wanting to lose some of your excess weight, do not turn to weight loss pills. They are neither safe nor effective. The safe, fast, easy way to lose excess weight is to minimise the amount of salt and salty food you eat, avoid dieting, eat plenty of fruit and unsalted vegetables, and make sure you have dairy calcium, e.g. milk and yoghurt, as part of your food intake.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, stroke, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, boost your lung function and improve your health in many other ways without drugs, hunger or expense by eating less salt! - Try it!

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Prescriptions for obesity drugs pass a million

Prescriptions for obesity drugs pass a million

Extracts from the Telegraph:

"Data from the NHS Information Centre shows in 2006, 1.06m prescriptions were written for orlistat, which blocks the absorption of fat from food, and sibutramine which acts as an appetite suppressant.

Prescriptions of the drugs have increased eight fold since 1999."

"The report from the Information Centre shows 67 per cent of adults were either obese or overweight in 2006, up from 59 per cent in 1993.

A quarter of adults are classed as obese which means they have a body mass index of 30 or more when weight in kilos is divided by height in metres squared."

Sadly, as you will see from the complete Telegraph article, if you read it, the people who make pronouncements about the causes of obesity and the best treatments for it, are obviously mistaken in what they say,because if they were giving the correct information, obesity would not be on the increase...

The safest and fastest way to lose excess weight is to stop eating salt/sodium and food containing salt. This reduces the fluid retention which is the cause of obesity. The drugs that are prescribed for obesity are harmful, expensive, ineffective and unnecessary. They benefit only the pharmaceutical companies who sell them.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, 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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