Posted: January 22, 2012 at 8:41 am
The most promising diet pill to come along in decades has received good news from the food and drug administration. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have asked the company to remove the contraindication from the drug’s label, which had indicated that the drug cannot be used for the treatment of women of childbearing…
Posted: January 12, 2012 at 11:44 am
QGK4MNZRCZ3Z—-When trying to lose weight the first thing most people do is try to find a diet that is best suited for them. While there are many out there not all diets are for everybody, I have decided to put together a series of posts dedicated to alternative diets. The diets we will be looking…
Posted: December 28, 2011 at 7:27 am
It’s that time of year again…New Year’s Resolution time. If you are like many people in the world, your resolution every year includes some sort of weight loss. And, if you are like the majority of those people, you have lost that motivation and resolve very early in your attempt. There are ways in which…
Posted: December 22, 2011 at 6:00 am
You made it through Thanksgiving. Now the Christmas holidays are looming ahead of you. It seems that the “season” of overeating is never ending. Rather than trying to lose weight over the season, it may be a better idea to simply maintain all of your hard work and begin again with the loss in the…
Posted: December 21, 2011 at 5:05 am
Let’s face it. More and more people are considered to be overweight or obese as the decades pass by. In the 1960’s, the prevalence of obesity was a mere 13% in the United States. In 2004, that percentage had risen to 32, and it is estimated that by the year 2015, 75% of adults and…
Posted: December 15, 2011 at 4:32 am
Dietary weight loss supplements are abundant in our society. There are entire aisles dedicated to them in drug stores, and late night television commercials barrage us with their ultimate powers to provide quick weight loss. With so many to choose from and so many claims of success, how are people to decide which one is…
Posted: December 8, 2011 at 4:27 am
A recent influx of counterfeit Phentermine diet pills have been found in circulation, they are being passed off as legitimate pills from manufacturer Actavis. Actavis has not marketed Phentermine since 2008 and does not plan to resume marketing until 2012 and does not distribute the product to online sellers. The counterfeits in circulation are white…
Posted: December 6, 2011 at 6:59 am
The Federal Trade Commission has filed ten lawsuits against firms who hire third parties who create fake news sites promoting the weight loss effects of Acai supplements. This is a follow up on the complaint filed in November against Boris Mizhen and three companies that he operates, for hiring affiliate marketers to create fake news…
Posted: November 21, 2011 at 7:27 am
Unilever a London based consumer goods company has released the results of a clinical trial that was used when they were testing Hoodia for a potential weight loss supplement. Unilever which was trying to produce a safe and effective weight loss medication has concluded through clinical trials that using the Hoodia gordonii succulent plant (it…
Posted: November 17, 2011 at 5:25 am
With the FDA reconsidering the diet pill Qnexa which is a combination Topiramate and Phentermine, there are still many unanswered questions that need to be addressed with this diet pill combination. The resubmission comes after Vivus the company that manufactures Qnexa and the FDA reached an agreement on filing strategy in September. The strategy being…