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Slimming pills: do they work?
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A magic pill that makes you slim with no side-effects would be the 21st century's goose that lays the golden egg. With 13 million people forecast to become obese by 2010, the market for a miracle cure is huge. Dieters spent 47million last year on pills and diet aids, just one segment of an industry with a turnover of 1 billion a year. It's no wonder that so many companies want to jump on this lucrative bandwagon.
I achieved the impossible, ran the headline after a woman in America claimed that Alli, an anti-obesity drug to be made available in British pharmacies this spring, had enabled her to lose 4st (25.4kg) in 18 months.
Last week came the news that we're using eight times the number of slimming tablets than we were seven years ago. But their ingredients do not include miracles. The singer Kelly Osbourne checked into rehab last week, rumoured to be addicted to weight-loss pills. And the news that Alli will be available over the counter in the UK has also sparked tales of bouts of diarrhoea from those who have tried it, and warnings from doctors that weight loss with the drug is likely to be small and will occur only if people also make big changes to their lifestyles.
This follows concerns from consumer groups that other types of slimming pills, sold at healthfood shops as herbal remedies and supplements, are for the most part useless. Loopholes in British regulation allow the makers of such pills to make claims about weight loss that are scientifically unsubstantiated. Then there are pills that are available online, subject to no controls and sometimes dangerous.
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