Deceptive Weight-Loss Drugs Hurt me
April 24th, 2010
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To be fair, though, the two latest FDA-approved weight-loss drugs — orlistat (Xenical or Alli over the counter) and sibutramine (Meridia) — haven’t produced spectacular results, either.
A recent analysis of 264 studies that compared people taking either of these two drugs with those taking a placebo found that the drug-takers lost an average of less than 8 lbs., or about 5 percent of their mean total body weight – 6.5 lbs. in the 16 trials of orlistat, and 8 lbs. in the 10 trials of sibutramine.
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