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Big Pharma’s Answer to Weight Loss Gone Bad

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Phentermine vs. Hamalyan Goji JuiceLook, once a society starts doing well, it is always possible that to get more food cheaper and cheaper. That’s good considering that that there are billions of people in the world that don’t have enough to go around. The problem arises when people start to gain weight, and obesity becomes an epidemic like it has in the United States.

On the business side, where there is a need, there will be some one trying to fulfill that need and thus make a living. You can’t really blame them. They did not create the problem, they are just trying to offer you a solution hoping to make some money. The problem is with modern medicine today that a pharmaceutical company will produce a drug that has a lot of side effects and not a lot to show for results.

There is the weight loss drug called Phentermine that has been around the sixties. It is designed suppress the patients appetite. It works well, which is about ten to fifteen percent higher weight loss than not taking it. That sounds quite all right, if you don’t read the fine print. For instance, they don’t want you take the pill too late in the day, because it will keep you up at night. I believe it is because your body starts to produce adrenaline. It can also cause dry mouth, constipation, diarrhea (how can it cause either one or the other is a mystery to me) and restlessness. That is if you are otherwise healthy. If you are taking other medication, your doctor needs to be very careful to make sure that it does not produce other side effects.

Now, it has been shown that there are herbs that can do just as good of a job in certain situations as synthetic drugs (and yes I am referring to the Himalayan goji juice here quite interestingly), but the problem is you can’t patent a living organism, therefore there is no money in it. Go figure.