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May 12, 2008
Diet Drugs Dangerous
A drug that could have negative (side) effects? This doesn't seem possible. I'm willing to bet that if 98% of the prescription medications on the market today were taken OFF the market, health problems would go down and less people would die than normally expected. Now it comes as some sort of surprise that a diet drug could be dangerous for children and their brain development. Unless it's life threatening, or a quality of life is severely compromised, and no natural methods of intervention can or does help, then drug intervention should be considered (bacteria infections would be a perfect example; so would diabetes Type I; or anesthesia for surgery). But a drug to help combat obesity is practically a license to (pardun the pun) have the cake and eat (the whole thing) too! Obesity is "treated" with lifestyle changes, because that's what good health is all about. Here's more about the dangers of anti-obesity drugs --
(Foodconsumer.org) -- Anti-obesity drugs that work by blocking brain molecules similar to those in marijuana should not be used in children, a new animal study reported in the May 8 issue of Neuron suggests.
Scientists from MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory found drugs of this sort could block cannabinoid receptors and also suppress the adaptive rewiring of the brain necessary for neural development in children.
Rimonabant (trade name Acomplia) developed by Sanofi-Aventis and awaiting approval for use in the United States is one such drug that works by blocking brain receptors that bind to marijuana and other cannabinoids. read on....
Bottom line: a healthy diet and regular exercise will be the best "treatment" and prevention for obesity, along with a large percentage of health problems.
HWI
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Posted by Julia Havey on May 12, 2008 at 11:51 AM | Permalink
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