This is what has motivated me over the last 14 years to study this topic so rigorously.I just completed an overview of ALL THE MAJOR DIET PILLS ON THE MARKET.those wellness business.. Here is a sneak peak:
The Billion Dollar Diet Pill By Shane Ellison
I agonized over writing this article. The entire diet pill industry (prescription or otherwise) is wrought with hype and false claims. At first glance, it appears impossible to find an ounce of truth among the hype that fuels the billion dollar industry. But, after I applied the basic science of metabolism and medicinal chemistry, the facts surfaced.
You can't swallow a pill to achieve what companies are selling: effortless fat loss and the building of sexy, lean muscle. Such attempts have led to devastating results. However, that same science elucidates select herbal blends that can serve as a "metabolic spark" to our fat loss fire.
To understand the inherent failures and risks of diet pills, you must understand the complexity of the human metabolism. It's a delicate and intricate balance of organ function, hormonal activity, appetite control, and biogenic amine output all working in orchestra-like unison. Once achieved, the perfect metabolism confers low body fat and defined muscle. This "natural intelligence" of the human body cannot be mimicked or activated by any one pill.
But this hasn't stopped the drug and supplement industry from trying to activate at least one function to trigger fat loss. Such attempts have proven futile and even dangerous.
Death by Diet Pill
The first diet pill to hit the market was a combo of the psychostimulants fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine (marketed as Fen-Phen). Made by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, its $52 million dollar marketing plan began selling the pants off fat Americans in 1992 by promising appetite control – despite not having FDA approval for the so-called, anorectic drug combo. Its benefit hardly outweighed its risk. Users lost a mere 5.5 lbs. of body weight compared to that achieved by dieting alone.
The New England Journal of Medicine showed that users of the combo faced a 23-fold increase in the risk of developing pulmonary hypertension and cardiovascular complications. Marketing ceased in 1997 after rampant heart disease and death. Wyeth paid about $17 billion in damages, but was never charged by the FDA for the illegal marketing of an unapproved drug.
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