The problem with oily stools? I keep falling off!!
Over-the-Counter Weight-Loss Drug Is Approved
By STEPHANIE SAUL
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved the first officially sanctioned weight-loss drug to be sold without a prescription.
Experts expect the drug, Alli, to be available to consumers in the summer.
Although the medication has been available by prescription since 1999, some experts predict that it will be more widely used as an over-the-counter product. It will be the lone government-approved alternative to unproven over-the-counter remedies.
People in the United States spend about $1 billion a year on herbal formulas and other supplements that advertise fast weight loss but have no proven effectiveness and can be dangerous.
An official of the food agency, Dr. Curtis J. Rosebraugh, called the approval important in light of the array of unproven products on the market.
“It’s rather significant that there will now be available an over-the-counter product that we do have data on, that we know is efficacious and what the safety profile is,” Dr. Rosebraugh said.
An obesity specialist in Washington, Dr. Arthur Frank, said Alli had a safe track record and could help patients lose 5 percent to 10 percent of their weight.
On the negative side, Alli can cause side effects like diarrhea and oily stools.
7 comments:
"I've fallen and I'm too drunk to want to get up!"
good times.
trying to work in "stool pigeon"...nah, can't do it.
omg - if this "shit" is like xenical - fast, have your jaw wired shut, get your gut stapled, go to somalia and soak up all the weight loss "energy" in the region (that's the new age approach) or, of course, there is the supposed spa in switzerland where you can have a tapeworm inserted. yum.
just pass the ipecac.
Eeeewwwww! I wish I had never read the words "oily" and "stool" together.
Ewww and LMAO!
Very funny :-)
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