Category: Dieting/WLS
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Meridia (sibutramine) being removed from the US market
8 comments on Meridia (sibutramine) being removed from the US marketFrom CNN: Abbott Laboratories has agreed to take its obesity drug Meridia (sibutramine) off the market, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. The company voluntarily withdrew the drug because clinical trial studies showed there was an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes in people who used the drug. […] Approved in 1997 […]
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Things to Read
From Marianne Kirby at The Rotund: FA represents a long chain of people coming to the realization that the diet roller coaster is, to mix my metaphors, a sucker bet. The diet industry – when you get down to the bare, capitalist bones of it – has quite a lot of profit to be made […]
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Another HAES Quote
This quote on Health At Every Size is from Michelle, aka The Fat Nutritionist. Links within the quote were added by me. [D]ieting purports to make all people lose weight, permanently. Because 80-95% of the people who engage in it do not lose weight permanently, dieting fails as an intervention. It fails to achieve its […]
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FDA Advisory Panel Recommends NOT Approving Qnexa
In an update, the FDA advisory panel reviewing the weight-loss drug Qnexa has voted to reject it. The final FDA decision will not be issued until October, but the advisory panel’s decision is usually key to their decision. In a 10-6 vote, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said they were concerned that Qnexa […]
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Diet Drug Side Effects
Let’s do a poll! More information: Alli side effects Alli possibility of liver damage Fen-phen FDA review of Qnexa (PDF) Limitations of adverse effects reporting
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New Diet Drug: Qnexa
Patients on the highest dose of Qnexa lost an average of 8.9 percent of their weight after adjusting for the effects of a placebo. More than 60 percent of patients on middle and high doses lost at least 5 percent of their weight, compared with 20 percent for those getting a placebo. — NY Times […]
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Expectations (and Risks) of Weight Loss
Risks like “Weight loss of 15% or more from maximum body weight is associated with increased risk of death from all causes among overweight men and among women regardless of maximum BMI.”
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Weight Loss Expectations: NIH vs Popular Thought
What expectations do people have when they start a weight loss program? The Fantasy of Being Thin is very common, and usually isn’t about being less fat. It’s about being THIN. So this blurb from The Practical Guide: Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, from the US National Institutes of Health […]
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Today’s Logic Fail
Researchers found that kids who have higher BMIs tend to do a little worse on treadmill tests than thinner kids…if they’re from “lower- or middle-income neighborhoods.” The difference goes away if they’re from the more affluent neighborhoods. Lead researcher Dr. Tajinder P. Singh, of Children’s Hospital Boston, speculates that [K]ids from affluent neighborhoods have […]
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Why Don’t I Diet?
Simple: There isn’t a proven, permanent method of weight loss that works for all (or even most) people. Yes, most dieters lose 5-10% of their body weight in the first few months. They then regain some or all in the long term. This has been shown by a number of studies, including studies run by […]
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Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution”
I didn’t watch the show. I wasn’t going to blog about it, for one thing. But this article Arun Gupta wrote at Alternet is fascinating, digging into the various federal and state requirements for school lunches, how both policy and kids’ tastes encourages the use of processed foods … and here I am, blogging about […]
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Weight loss math isn’t as simple as they thought
The Wall Street Journal wrote recently that research doesn’t actually support the notion that permanently increasing your food intake by a certain amount will correspond to indefinite weight gain. Instead, the body finds a new setpoint and adjusts itself. Consider the chocolate-chip-cookie fan who adds one 60-calorie cookie to his daily diet. By the old […]
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Freedom to Cook
Dieting taught me to appreciate machinery-measured and packaged food with detailed nutritional labels. Why? It made the math easier. I didn’t have to weigh things. I didn’t have to dig out a ruler or measuring spoons. Calories, carbs, protein — it’s all there, neatly printed, and totally uniform. Sure, I had a few recipes […]
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“Every Little Bit Helps!” Really? Depends on your goal.
Maybe in increasing overall health, but not in losing weight, it doesn’t. This reminder was brought to you by this week’s Well column: Numerous scientific studies show that small caloric changes have almost no long-term effect on weight. When we skip a cookie or exercise a little more, the body’s biological and behavioral adaptations […]
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Confession
I am dependent on food.* I truly believe that I need food to continue living.** Further, despite weighing 401lbs (yes, I own a scale) I eat every day. Even multiple times a day.*** Oh: and I think eating food when I’m hungry is a healthy and normal thing. Bwah! Clearly I am the destroyer of […]
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Quote of the Day: Fat Acceptance Made Exercise Easier
One of the things I like exploding people’s heads with is the fact that embracing FA made it *easier* for me to exercise. Before, exercise was always this horrible, dreary thing I “had” to do so that I’d be “thin,” and if I didn’t get “thin” I was failing, which made me not want to […]
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Friday Fluff
Okay, y’all, this week has been depressing. First Michelle Obama wants to make fat kids thin through the magic of exercise. Then the media asserts that deaths from alcoholic liver disease are due to childhood obesity and talks about diet and exercise for kids as if it’s never been done before and all of […]
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