Article: Weighting for Godot: the wait for a weight loss bioactive marvel demands patience, risk tolerance, and investment, while many industrial players prefer to eschew patience and mitigate risk by resigning to commodity platforms that are often unsustainable.(PROPRIETARY PERSPECTIVES)

Oh the multinational obsession with weight loss--a prodigious consumer base enduring unmet or underserved needs, an increasingly slothful population obsessed with ingestive hedonism, and an evangelism-driven continuum of therapeutic and prophylactic promises. A self-perpetuating machine with food, beverage, and dietary supplement value chain contingencies either reinforcing the corpulence and complacency with sedentary life options and/or reinforcing the hope that an easy and effective solution does indeed exist.

The imminent entrance of the drug orlistat, a lipase inhibitor (and thus a fat-derived calorie absorption antagonist), onto the prescription-free ...

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