Article: Diet pill use on the rise among teenage girls

Lauren Gong
University Wire
05-19-2005
(The Stanford Daily) (U-WIRE) STANFORD, Calif. -- From benign green tea supplements to the dangerous fen-phen drug combination, diet pills exist in every shape, way and form. With early two-thirds of Americans are overweight and just under one-third are obese according to the National Institute of Health, dieting has become a national hobby. Type in the words "diet pills" into the Google search engine and you'll receive more than 800,000 hits. As long as Americans keep buying, the companies will keep selling. According to the book "Fat: Exploding the Myths" by Lisa Colles, Americans spend between $30 and $50 billion each year on diet programs; $6 ...

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