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Article: STAYING HEALTHY: New Diet Pills Help Control Weight
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- Los Angeles Sentinel
- Article date:
- July 26, 1995
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William I. Young
Los Angeles Sentinel
07-26-1995
STAYING HEALTHY: New Diet Pills Help Control Weight.
Is the inability to stop gaining weight an illness like diabetes or hypertension? And, if so, can it be controlled like other illnesses through medication? Two newly-tested diet pills, phentermine and fenfluramine, are suggesting that the answer or both questions is "yes."
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 32 million American women and 26 million American men were overweight. Based on results achieved by the new non-addictive, prescription medications "phen" and "fen," some researchers are suggesting that obesity is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. This ...
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