Black Beauty Diet Pills

Black Beauty Diet Pills

Diet pills, they've had a rough go of it, links to heart disease, kids using them to get high, gross bowel movements and doubt as to whether they even work, a marketer's nightmare. Time for more bad news! Black Beauty Diet Pills

A new study suggests the popular diet drug Orlistat, sold under the prescription name Xenical, doesn't inspire people to improve their diets, instead individuals popping Xenical are more likely to eat worse. How's that for irony, black beauty.

An experimental drug called tesofensine is said to produce double the weight loss of current diet drugs. The drug works on three different appetite regulatory centers of the brain - the neurotransmitters noradrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin.

The University of Minnesota reports that diet pill use among teenage girls has doubled over the last 5 years.

What is fueling this obsession with pills? Black Beauty Diet Pills?

Here is a brief rundown of a study of 2,500 females over a 5 year period:

* Use of diet pills among high school girls nearly doubled from 7.5% to 14.2%.
* By the ages of 19 and 20 - 20% of females had used diet pills.
* By teenage years physical activity is only 3.93 hours per week (compared with males whose activity level is 6.11 hours per week).
* 21.9% of teenage females used diet pills, laxatives, vomiting or skipping meals as a weight control behavior (compare this with another large study of college-aged women).

The University of Connecticut surveyed 3,500 people and found that "70 percent of Americans who are trying to lose weight are following their own diet plans and have no interest in seeking a doctor's help." (via).

Of those who had made an attempt at losing weight:

* 34% used supplements.
* 15% had used prescription drugs.

Half of those interviewed thought that supplements are approved by the FDA. We know know this to not be true. Supplement users and black beauty diet pill users tended to be female, have household incomes of less than $40,000, and obese rather than overweight.
Only 30% of all diet piet users said they would see a doctor for weight loss assistance. This comes as no surprise as many doctors have little training in the area of nutrition or behavior therapy (nor even the mandate to do so).

What's worth restating on is this: The survey was commissioned by GlaxoSmithKline. This company manufactures Xenical, and is in the process of marketing the product over-the-counter, the product will be branded as "Alli".

The industry of weight loss medication and supplementation is enormous. Many people are unaware of the distinction between "supplements" and prescription pills. As GSK flexes its considerable marketing muscle I suspect this distinction will become even more blurred.

Americans most certainly live in a new age, the age of the "magic pill".