Article: New diet-pill being prescribed by a growing number of doctors.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Diet pills are back.

Twenty years after habit-forming amphetamines gave diet drugs a black eye, medications to help melt fat away are once again in vogue.

Willpower, it seems, is just no match for the temptations of chips, cake and couch-potato comfort.

Despite a national obsession with thinness, despite government exhortations to eat better and exercise more, despite public worry over the health problems of obesity, and despite annual expenditures of more than $30 billion on dieting, Americans are the fattest people in the world and getting fatter.

A third of American adults now weigh at least 20 percent more than they should, up from ...

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