Download or read book Pharmacotherapy of Obesity written by John P. H. Wilding and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After three introductory chapters that deal with the general theme of obesity – now regarded as a chronic disease – this volume discusses the drugs sibutramine and orlistat, which are approved for long-term use in the US and in much of the rest of the world. The three final chapters discuss future drug targets, like the central nervous system and gut hormones, and how to influence energy expenditure and substrate utilization.
Download or read book Weight Loss Drugs written by Suellen May and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obesity is a serious problem in the United States, and various methods and strategies for losing excess weight have become more and more popular. In addition to the multitude of diet and exercise programs available to consumers, new drugs that promote weight loss are constantly being developed and marketed. While some of these drugs can contribute to healthy weight loss, there are many risks involved in their use and abuse. ""Weight-Loss Drugs"" takes a look at these drugs, and explains that though there is no 'magic pill' that melts the pounds away, some drugs have proven effective in supporting a sensible weight-loss plan.Likewise, other drugs have proven to be ineffective, dangerous, or even deadly. Chapters include: Fat and Weight Loss; Appetite Suppressants; Fen-Phen and Redux - The Making and Unmaking of Drugs; Stimulants; Going Off-Label for Weight Loss. May is also the author of ""Botox[registered] and Other Cosmetic Drugs in Chelsea House's Drugs: The Straight Facts"" series.
Download or read book The Challenge of Treating Obesity and Overweight written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roundtable on Obesity Solutions of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC, on April 6, 2017, titled The Challenge of Treating Obesity and Overweight: A Workshop. The discussions covered treatments for obesity, overweight, and severe obesity in adults and children; emerging treatment opportunities; the development of a workforce for obesity treatments; payment and policy considerations; and promising paths to move forward. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Download or read book Diet Pill Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anti Diet written by Christy Harrison and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaim your time, money, health, and happiness from our toxic diet culture with groundbreaking strategies from a registered dietitian, journalist, and host of the Food Psych podcast. 68 percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90% of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as many as 66% of people who embark on weight-loss efforts end up gaining more weight than they lost. If dieting is so clearly ineffective, why are we so obsessed with it? The culprit is diet culture, a system of beliefs that equates thinness to health and moral virtue, promotes weight loss as a means of attaining higher status, and demonizes certain ways of eating while elevating others. It's sexist, racist, and classist, yet this way of thinking about food and bodies is so embedded in the fabric of our society that it can be hard to recognize. It masquerades as health, wellness, and fitness, and for some, it is all-consuming. In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside down, as Harrison explores the history of diet culture, how it's infiltrated the health and wellness world, how to recognize it in all its sneaky forms, and how letting go of efforts to lose weight or eat "perfectly" actually helps to improve people's health—no matter their size. Drawing on scientific research, personal experience, and stories from patients and colleagues, Anti-Diet provides a radical alternative to diet culture, and helps readers reclaim their bodies, minds, and lives so they can focus on the things that truly matter.
Download or read book The Diet Pill Guide written by David Dodson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you lose weight by taking a pill, powder, or tea? Find out the truth--and the risks... Containing up-to-date, authoritative information, The Diet Pill Book spells out what over 200 name-brand products contain and analyzes the validity of the manufacturers’ claims. Warnings, cautions, and possible allergic reactions are clearly stated. This essential reference covers: * Prescription weight loss products including: Mazanor, Xenical, and Meridia * Single ingredient, over-the-counter weight management products including: Chitosan, Chromium picolinate, and Pyruvate * Combination over-the-counter weight loss products, including: dieter’s teas, herbal laxatives, metabolism boosters, and fat-reducing soap Each entry explains: - Whether or not the ingredients promote weight loss, and if so, how - If the dosage is sufficient to promote weight loss - If there are any reliable studies to support manufacturers’ claims - If the product is safe; if it interacts with other drugs or foods, and what its potential side effects might be Before you take any weight-loss product, protect your health, and save your money with: The Diet Pill Book
Download or read book Redux written by Marilynn Larkin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touted as the miracle cure for the overweight, Redux has become the center of controversy. Raising the brain chemical serotonin, the drug produces a gratifying feeling of fullness, curbing the urge to munch on sweets or starches. Yet is this wonder drug everything doctors claim it to be? Since its approval, controversy has arisen over its potentially serious side effects, and this insightful book presents the unbiased facts about the drug.
Download or read book Diet Pill Drug Dangers written by Lawrence Clayton and published by Enslow Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With body image and weight consciousness being such a huge part of today's society, it is no wonder that so many young adults are abusing diet pills. This book looks at the dangers associated with diet pill abuse. Information on how these pills work and exactly how they affect the user are also included. Some discussion of responsible, medically supervised use of prescription diet pills is included, along with real-life stories and anecdotes of people who have battled diet pill addictions.
Download or read book CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2021 written by Maxine A. Papadakis and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 1984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now includes a “Year in Review” highlighting over 180 recent medical advances since the last edition! Doody's Core Titles for 2021! For 60 years, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment—the flagship volume of the renowned Lange medical series—has been delivering the authoritative information students, residents, and clinicians need to build their medical knowledge, expertise, and confidence. Covering the latest clinical developments in all facets of medicine and fully focused on bedside clinical issues, this new edition provides completely the latest guidelines, reference, drug prices, approved drugs, and evidence-based coverage of more than 1,000 diseases and disorders—all formatted to enable you to find the answers you need quickly and effortlessly. This landmark guide covers inpatient and outpatient care, focusing on the diagnostic tools relevant to daily practice, and reviews all primary care topics, including gynecology/obstetrics, dermatology, ophthalmology, geriatrics, preventive medicine, psychiatry, and neurology. Now includes a “year in review” feature highlighting what’s new in CMDT! Includes essentials of diagnosis for most diseases/disorders Hundreds of quick-access drug treatment tables with indexed trade names Diagnostic and treatment algorithms present important information in an at-a-glance style Up-to-date references provide peer-reviewed, evidence-based information Seven bonus chapters available online to all book purchasers, featuring expanded content and annual review of advances in HIV treatment and critical information on emerging viral infections
Download or read book The Diet Pill Guide written by David Dodson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you lose weight by taking a pill, powder, or tea? Find out the truth--and the risks... Containing up-to-date, authoritative information, The Diet Pill Book spells out what over 200 name-brand products contain and analyzes the validity of the manufacturers’ claims. Warnings, cautions, and possible allergic reactions are clearly stated. This essential reference covers: * Prescription weight loss products including: Mazanor, Xenical, and Meridia * Single ingredient, over-the-counter weight management products including: Chitosan, Chromium picolinate, and Pyruvate * Combination over-the-counter weight loss products, including: dieter’s teas, herbal laxatives, metabolism boosters, and fat-reducing soap Each entry explains: - Whether or not the ingredients promote weight loss, and if so, how - If the dosage is sufficient to promote weight loss - If there are any reliable studies to support manufacturers’ claims - If the product is safe; if it interacts with other drugs or foods, and what its potential side effects might be Before you take any weight-loss product, protect your health, and save your money with: The Diet Pill Book
Download or read book Alternative Medicine Magazine s Definitive Guide to Weight Loss written by Ellen Kamhi and published by Celestial Arts. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternative medicine holds the key to losing weight permanently. By correcting imbalances resulting from such conditions as food allergies, overactive hormones, yeast infections, an underactive thyroid, or parasites, the health-promoting tips and techniques in this book will help you restructure your health-and melt away unwanted pounds. This simple program kicks off with a comprehensive detox to flush toxins-commonly stored in fat cells-out of the system. Next it presents new ideas for losing weight by matching your diet to your unique body type and learning to choose the right fats, sweeteners, and supplements.Featuring more than twenty healthy recipes, detox teas and juices, lymph-stimulating methods for banishing cellulite, a menu-based eating plan, and the Super Seven Home Workout, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE MAGAZINE'¬?S DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO WEIGHT LOSS contains everything you need to get energized and become the healthy, trim person you'¬?ve always wanted to be.
Download or read book Magic Pill written by Johann Hari and published by Crown. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it—from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society’s dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies. In January 2023, Johann Hari started to inject himself once a week with Ozempic, one of the new drugs that produces significant weight loss. He wasn’t alone—some predictions suggest that in a few years, a quarter of the U.S. population will be taking these drugs. While around 80 percent of diets fail, someone taking one of the new drugs will lose up to a quarter of their body weight in six months. To the drugs’ defenders, here is a moment of liberation from a condition that massively increases your chances of diabetes, cancer, and an early death. Still, Hari was wildly conflicted. Can these drugs really be as good as they sound? Are they a magic solution—or a magic trick? Finding the answer to this high-stakes question led him on a journey from Iceland to Minneapolis to Tokyo, and to interview the leading experts in the world on these questions. He found that along with the drug’s massive benefits come twelve significant potential risks. He also found that these drugs radically challenge what we think we know about shame, willpower, and healing. What do they reveal about the nature of obesity itself? What psychological issues begin to emerge when our eating patterns are suddenly disrupted? Are the drugs a liberation or a further symptom of our deeply dysfunctional relationship with food? These drugs are about to change our world, for better and for worse. Everybody needs to understand how they work—scientifically, emotionally, and culturally. Magic Pill is an essential guide to the revolution that has already begun, and which one leading expert argues will be as transformative as the invention of the smartphone.
Download or read book Weighing the Options written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly one out of every three adults in America is obese and tens of millions of people in the United States are dieting at any one time. This has resulted in a weight-loss industry worth billions of dollars a year and growing. What are the long-term results of weight-loss programs? How can people sort through the many programs available and select one that is right for them? Weighing the Options strives to answer these questions. Despite widespread public concern about weight, few studies have examined the long-term results of weight-loss programs. One reason that evaluating obesity management is difficult is that no other treatment depends so much on an individual's own initiative and state of mind. Now, a distinguished group of experts assembled by the Institute of Medicine addresses this compelling issue. Weighing the Options presents criteria for evaluating treatment programs for obesity and explores what these criteria meanâ€"to health care providers, program designers, researchers, and even overweight people seeking help. In presenting its criteria the authors offer a wealth of information about weight loss: how obesity is on the rise, what types of weight-loss programs are available, how to define obesity, how well we maintain weight loss, and what approaches and practices appear to be most successful. Information about weight-loss programsâ€"their clients, staff qualifications, services, and success ratesâ€"necessary to make wise program choices is discussed in detail. The book examines how client demographics and characteristicsâ€"including health status, knowledge of weight-loss issues, and attitude toward weight and body imageâ€"affect which programs clients choose, how successful they are likely to be with their choices, and what this means for outcome measurement. Short- and long-term safety consequences of weight loss are discussed as well as clinical assessment of individual patients. The authors document the health risks of being overweight, summarizing data indicating that even a small weight loss reduces the risk of disease and depression and increases self-esteem. At the same time, weight loss has been associated with some poor outcomes, and the book discusses the implications for program evaluation. Prevention can be even more important than treatment. In Weighing the Options, programs for population groups, efforts targeted to specific groups at high risk for obesity, and prevention of further weight gain in obese individuals get special attention. This book provides detailed guidance on how the weight-loss industry can improve its programs to help people be more successful at long-term weight loss. And it provides consumers with tips on selecting a program that will improve their chances of permanently losing excess weight.
Download or read book Introduction to Basics of Pharmacology and Toxicology written by Abialbon Paul and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the pharmacological relationships between the various systems in the human body. It offers a comprehensive overview of the pharmacology concerning the autonomic, central, and peripheral nervous systems. Presenting up-to-date information on chemical mediators and their significance, it highlights the therapeutic aspects of several diseases affecting the cardiovascular, renal, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrinal, and hematopoietic systems. The book also includes drug therapy for microbial and neoplastic diseases. It also comprises sections on immunopharmacology, dermatological, and ocular pharmacology providing valuable insights into these emerging and recent topics. Covering the diverse groups of drugs acting on different systems, the book reviews their actions, clinical uses, adverse effects, interactions, and subcellular mechanisms of action. It is divided into 11 parts, subdivided into several chapters that evaluate the basic pharmacological principles that govern the different types of body systems. This book is intended for academicians, researchers, and clinicians in industry and academic institutions in pharmaceutical, pharmacological sciences, pharmacy, medical sciences, physiology, neurosciences, biochemistry, molecular biology and other allied health sciences.
Download or read book The Natural Fat Loss Pharmacy written by Harry G. Preuss and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reliable guide to the nutritional supplements and herbs that can safely and effectively help you lose weight and keep it off.
Download or read book Medicinal Foods as Potential Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes and Associated Diseases written by Solomon Habtemariam and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-06-08 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicinal Foods as Potential Therapies for Type-2 Diabetes and Associated Diseases: The Chemical and Pharmacological Basis of their Action focuses on active pharmacological principles that modulate diabetes, associated risk factors, complications and the mechanism of action of widely used anti-diabetic herbal plants—rather than just the nutritional composition of certain foods. The book provides up-to-date information on acclaimed antidiabetic super fruits, spices and other food ingredients. Sections cover diabetes and obesity at the global level, the physiological control of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, the pathophysiology of type-2 diabetes, the chemistry and pharmacology of a variety of spices, and much more. This book will be invaluable for research scientists and students in the medical and pharmaceutical sciences, medicinal chemistry, herbal medicine, drug discovery/development, nutrition science, and for herbal practitioners and those from the nutraceutical and pharm industries. Provides background knowledge on type-2 diabetes and its pathophysiology and therapeutic targets down to the molecular level Explores, in detail, the chemistry or secondary metabolites of the indicated foods that potentially modify diabetes and/or associated diseases Examines the pharmacological findings on medicinal foods, including available clinical trials
Download or read book The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation s Elderly written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-06-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malnutrition and obesity are both common among Americans over age 65. There are also a host of other medical conditions from which older people and other Medicare beneficiaries suffer that could be improved with appropriate nutritional intervention. Despite that, access to a nutrition professional is very limited. Do nutrition services benefit older people in terms of morbidity, mortality, or quality of life? Which health professionals are best qualified to provide such services? What would be the cost to Medicare of such services? Would the cost be offset by reduced illness in this population? This book addresses these questions, provides recommendations for nutrition services for the elderly, and considers how the coverage policy should be approached and practiced. The book discusses the role of nutrition therapy in the management of a number of diseases. It also examines what the elderly receive in the way of nutrition services along the continuum of care settings and addresses the areas of expertise needed by health professionals to provide appropriate nutrition services and therapy.
