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Article Source: Yahoo! NewsDieters, doctors and investors get their first extensive look at the first of a trio of new weight loss drugs this week. The hope is that the new drugs can succeed where many others have failed: delivering significant weight loss without risky side effects.
With U.S. obesity rates nearing 35 percent of the adult population, expectations are high for the first new prescription drug therapies to emerge in more than a decade. Even a modestly effective drug has blockbuster potential.
I thought rapid weight loss would be inherently dangerous just because of it being a rapid change with your body.
I can't help but pose the question: Should there be a quick-fix pill for rapid weight loss with minimal effort?
#1 - Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:06 AM EDTShould there be a quick-fix pill for rapid weight loss with minimal effort?
Why shouldn't there be? We are running a stone age metabolism on modern day foods. All this nonsense about obesity being a moral failing is quite simply that nonsense.
#2 - Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:17 PM EDTModern day foods are so far removed from the origin of foods that it's ridiculous though. Just because you can consume such foods doesn't mean you should, and even then it doesn't mean you should consume any foods in such quantities as to make oneself 400+ lbs and then ask for help to lose the weight when you see so many people never changing their lifestyle and once they loose weight they gain it back. It's not as if these people never see the signs that they are going to become morbidly obese. It's a choice to continue such lifestyles (in most cases). If the people won't work and put forth effort to change their weight, how can they be expected to keep said changed weight off? If they have a quick-fix pill that does all the work for them and then they gain the weight back they will go back to that pill, back and forth, ad nauseam. And I think that would destroy their bodies even if there aren't harmful side effects caused by the pill itself.
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