Article: Obesity poses health risks, but so does popping diet pills for a quick fix

Article: Diet pills free for all.
The Star (Amman, Jordan);  March 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ......however, not guaranteed to help and like all diet pills, they need to be taken together with a proper...plan. According to reports, prescription diet pills are only prescribed for those that are obese...lose a few kilograms, then prescription diet pills are not recommended. There are ...

Article: DIET PILLS AND TEENS A BAD MIX
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  September 5, 2000 ;     557 words ...Megan, 19, took the diet pill Metabolife for the...fast without going on a diet," said Megan, not her real...definite increase in my heart rate," she said. And that is...have mixed feelings about diet pills. Lauren Chan of Joliet...them. Stimulants are among diet pills' ...

Article: Diet pills offer hollow promise
University Wire;  March 12, 2002 ;     352 words ......become familiar in society through ads for diet pills. However, very little information seems to circulate about the realistic effects of diet pills on weight loss and the adverse side effects...student said she believed the no-work claim. Diet pills made me really hyper and then I ...

Article: Experts criticize diet pills searching for FDA approval
University Wire;  February 3, 2006 ;     507 words ......was not suitable to losing the weight. Diet pills presented a reasonable alternative. Nicole...spend $23 billion dollars annually on diet pills. In fact, 65 percent of Americans are...bulimics who abuse laxatives. Chapman said diet pills had no substance. "I see them as a crutch...

Article: U. Arkansas-area health experts warn against diet pills
University Wire;  January 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ......center that would recommend the use of diet pills. So often people believe losing weight...Clark recommends that students not use diet pills, but instead should make sure they take...Center, also suggested that students avoid diet pills. "The best way to lose weight is to maintain...

Article: Diet pills are dangerous, addictive -- and tempting
Post-Tribune (IN);  February 17, 2005 ;     473 words ......Wallace -- My best friend has been on diet pills and has lost 22 pounds in two months...weather. My friend has quite a few unused diet pills. I am very healthy. Would it be all right...Md. Tammy -- Do not take your friend's diet pills. They are a prescription drug and the...

Article: Doctors think twice about prescribing phen-fen diet pills After recent study, one physician says it's time to declare moratorium
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 15, 1997 ;     700+ words ......the popular phen-fen combo diet pills ended in a hospital emergency room, her heart racing, sweat dripping off...physicians to control her heart rate, a condition known as atrial...yet another hazard of the diet pills heart valve damage Milwaukee...tachycardia, an ...

Article: Americans, LSU students turn to diet pills for quick fix despite risks
University Wire;  January 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Kindschuh, color guard members, turned to diet pills as a means to lose weight after coming...studies junior, said she started taking diet pills as an easy way to lose weight, but she...Triche also said her decision to take diet pills came because of an ongoing struggle with...

Article: Health controversy surrounds diet pills
University Wire;  April 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ......a month's supply of diet pills. Before you run out...topic. Over-the-counter diet pills are becoming more and...Within this craze, diet pills have become one of the...distribute over-the-counter diet pills such as Metabolife stress...products. Over-the-counter ...

Article: Chinese diet pills suspected in death of Singapore woman
AP Worldstream;  June 2, 2002 ;     229 words ......who fell critically ill after taking diet pills from China has died, a hospital spokeswoman...failure suspected of being caused by the diet pills, which contained a chemical banned in...Doctors said that Raja took the Slim 10 diet pills _ made by Guangdong- based Yue Zhi Tang...

Article: More teen girls turning to diet pills
Charleston Daily Mail;  December 27, 2006 ;     217 words ...Increasing numbers of teenage girls look to diet pills to lose weight, a new study has found...Medicine, the study found that the use of diet pills almost doubled in a group of 2,500 female...20, nearly 20 percent reported using diet pills to lose weight. Teens were tracked in...

Article: Diet pills; Facing facts about peeling off pounds.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  September 2, 1997 ;     442 words ......antidote to obesity. The new generation of diet pills - most notably the wildly popular drugs...risks would be worth taking if the new diet pills could ward off the even greater dangers...loss indefinitely. And even if the new diet pills can justifiably be prescribed to the...

Article: Diet pills nearly kill her daughter
The Boston Globe;  August 16, 1996 ;     454 words ......almost lost her when she accidentally overdosed on diet pills. I believe she now realizes she could have easily...that are projected daily in the media cause many to diet excessively. Bulimia involves binging and purging...by vomiting or taking laxatives. Some people take diet pills, ...

Article: STAYING HEALTHY: New Diet Pills Help Control Weight
Los Angeles Sentinel;  July 26, 1995 ;     588 words ......Sentinel 07-26-1995 STAYING HEALTHY: New Diet Pills Help Control Weight. Is the inability...through medication? Two newly-tested diet pills, phentermine and fenfluramine, are suggesting...had enough to eat. So how do these new diet pills combat the problem? Phentermine causes...