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Article: Diet pills; Facing facts about peeling off pounds.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- September 2, 1997
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More and more often these days, patients come to their doctors in search of a dream: quick, effortless weight loss. They've heard stories about new miracle pills that squelch hunger and peel off pounds, and they're desperate to try them. But even the few physicians who once dispensed these drugs like candy are now reluctant to prescribe them. Alarmed by news that these acclaimed weight-loss pills may damage hearts, lungs and brains, doctors are crushing patients' hopes in the name of health.
This is a bitter turn of events for overweight Americans, who have long yearned for a magic antidote to obesity. The new generation of diet pills - most notably the wildly ...