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New Diet Pill for Weight Loss and Better Health
by Michael Bens
Quite understandably – and
quite rightly, in fact – diet pills used to have
a bad reputation. It’s easy to see why –
the diet pills of the sixties, seventies and eighties
were barbiturates – street name ‘speed’.
That’s what they did – they sped you up,
increasing energy to an often frenetic level while cutting
your appetite. An overdose could be fatal, and even
a mild overuse of these diet pills could keep you ‘going’
for days and days – hardly the effect anyone was
going for! But yes, they did make people lose weight,
sometimes quite a lot of weight. All too often, though,
any benefit that patients got from their weight loss
was more than counterbalanced by other health problems
that the diet pills themselves brought about.
The new generation of diet pills
is much different. Nowadays, people are more likely
to take ‘natural’ diet pills that are make
from herbal preparations, and these are safer, for the
most part, but not nearly as effective as the diet pills
of the past. Of course, there is (and probably always
will be) a market for them, because people love the
idea of a quick fix – a pill to make you lose
weight!
One new diet pill is called “Acomplia”
(generic name ‘rimonabant’). It works by
blocking the brain’s hunger receptors, so as a
result, you feel less hungry or don’t realize
that you are hungry. Depending on your precise behavior
that caused you to gain weight in the first place, this
may or may not work for you. Some of us eat too much
because we make poor food choices in response to hunger.
Others, however, engage in emotional eating –
eating when we’re not even hungry at all –
for other emotional or psychological reasons. The diet
pill may or may not do much for your individual diet
program. Studies indicate, however, that this diet pill
does help you lose weight to a certain extent. In a
European study, the subjects who took Acomplia lost
twenty pounds as opposed to only 8 in a control group
who received a placebo or ‘dummy’ pill.
This was a one-year study that included 1,500 people,
all of whom had weight to lose.
The manufacturers of this pill expected
that it would have a positive effect on weight loss.
They – and the researchers – were surprised
to find that it had another benefit as well. This diet
pill proved effective in lowering ‘bad’
cholesterol (triglycerides) by 7%, and even more significantly,
it raised ‘good’ cholesterol (HDL) by 27%.
This means that this pill, independent of its weight
loss benefits, it also an effective means of improving
your cholesterol profile and lowering your risk of heart
disease and cardiovascular disease. Some of this change
in cholesterol level may have been due to the fact that
Acomplia does facilitate weight loss, and weight loss
generally does improve one’s cholesterol profile.
However, it does seem as though it would do so even
if no substantial weight loss is sustained.
Interestingly, this pill is also
effective for other addictive behaviors, such as smoking.
It’s not known why – as far as we know,
its physical effects are limited to the elimination
of reduction of hunger. It seems as though there might
be link between these two compulsive behaviors –
overeating and smoking – though precisely what
that link is is open to speculation at present.
Acomplia is not yet available to
the pubic, but it will be by next year. Ask your doctor
about it if you think it would be of benefit to you,
and do some internet research. So far, it seems very
promising, and the side effects are virtually non-existent.
Time will tell, however, whether any concerns regarding
this product come up – it’s still in the
clinical trial stages.
The decision to rely entirely on
a pill for weight loss is usually a misguided one. Essentially,
you have to do the work – you have to change your
eating, and start exercising – and there’s
no real substitute for that. That having been said,
however, it does seem as though this pill is an effective
tool you can use to help you on your way. Ask your doctor
about Acomplia, particularly if your cholesterol profile
could use a bit of improvement!
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