http://www.wddty.com/weight-loss en-gb http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 20 Can you lose weight just by popping a slimming pill? Needless to say, the drug companies think so, and they’re in the process of making the best-selling orlistat drug available for everyone without a prescription. http://www.wddty.com/losing-weight-the-pills-don-t-work-but-still-the-drug-companies-push-them.html http://www.wddty.com/losing-weight-the-pills-don-t-work-but-still-the-drug-companies-push-them.html Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:53:00 GMT Health Nearly a third of obese people who die following weight-loss surgery do so by their own hand. Overall, nearly 3 per cent of patients who have the surgery die, usually within 30 days following surgery and from heart complications. http://www.wddty.com/weight-loss-surgery-nearly-3-per-cent-died-afterwards.html http://www.wddty.com/weight-loss-surgery-nearly-3-per-cent-died-afterwards.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:52:00 GMT Health Anti-obesity drugs and appetite suppressants are causing heart attacks, doctors have discovered. All the patients had been healthy, with no history of heart problems, and one was as young as 25 years. http://www.wddty.com/appetite-suppressants-they-cause-heart-failure-doctors-discover.html http://www.wddty.com/appetite-suppressants-they-cause-heart-failure-doctors-discover.html Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:00:00 GMT Health If you’re overweight or obese, it’s not your fault, UK health officials have declared. Obesity is now “an inevitable consequence” of the way we live our lives, with labour-saving devices, transport and sedentary work being the norm. http://www.wddty.com/overweight-it-s-not-your-fault-experts-say.html http://www.wddty.com/overweight-it-s-not-your-fault-experts-say.html Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:44:00 GMT Health It’s been said a few times, and now even the prestigious Cochrane Review agrees: the best way to lose weight is by adopting a low-glycemic index diet (or low-GI diet). http://www.wddty.com/gi-diet-it-s-the-best-if-you-want-to-lose-weight.html http://www.wddty.com/gi-diet-it-s-the-best-if-you-want-to-lose-weight.html Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:30:00 GMT Health Obesity may be catching. Close friends, neighbours and family members of an obese person are much more likely to put on the weight themselves, researchers have discovered. http://www.wddty.com/obesity-believe-it-or-not-it-s-catching.html http://www.wddty.com/obesity-believe-it-or-not-it-s-catching.html Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:30:00 GMT Health If you want to lose weight, don’t take the ‘wonder’ slimming drug Acomplia (rimonabant). Although it sailed through the approval process in Europe, and has been used in the UK for a year, American investigators have discovered the drug can increase the risk of suicide. http://www.wddty.com/wonder-slimming-drug-it-increases-suicide-risk.html http://www.wddty.com/wonder-slimming-drug-it-increases-suicide-risk.html Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:37:00 GMT Health Anti-obesity drugs are the new kids on the block – and they’re already doing great business. They’ve been approved for use only since 1997 in the USA, and a year later in Europe, yet they are already achieving sales of US$500m every year, and this is expected to treble by 2010. http://www.wddty.com/anti-obesity-drugs-sales-rocket-but-they-may-not-be-safe-and-they-don-t-work-too-well.html http://www.wddty.com/anti-obesity-drugs-sales-rocket-but-they-may-not-be-safe-and-they-don-t-work-too-well.html Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:06:00 GMT Health The only way to lose weight, according to the prevailing calorie theory, is by exercising more or eating less because weight loss only happens when you burn more energy than you eat. http://www.wddty.com/weight-loss-calories-don-t-count-good-food-does.html http://www.wddty.com/weight-loss-calories-don-t-count-good-food-does.html Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:08:00 GMT Health Body mass index (BMI) is a clumsy and imprecise measure of obesity. It’s arrived at through a complicated computation, which involves dividing your weight by your height, and the result is a number. http://www.wddty.com/bmi-the-great-red-herring-for-heart-health.html http://www.wddty.com/bmi-the-great-red-herring-for-heart-health.html Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:11:00 GMT Health Dieting is prone to potentially dangerous fads and fashions. In our second Millennium issue, WDDTY exposes the worst of the slimming regimes and offers proven ways to reach your ideal weight. ... http://www.wddty.com/dieting.html http://www.wddty.com/dieting.html Sat, 1 Jan 2000 12:00:00 GMT Health Medicine peddles two types of drugs to help us lose weight: amphetamines and drugs which act on the central nervous system as appetite suppressants. Many are potentially addictive, and cause heada ... http://www.wddty.com/drugs-for-weight-loss.html http://www.wddty.com/drugs-for-weight-loss.html Tue, 1 Aug 1995 12:00:00 GMT Health