Many diet pills in the market today are promising faster rates of reducing body fats or losing weight, but according to experts some of these so-called ‘magic drugs’ may not be as effective to every patient. But they added other health benefits may be taken from these medicines.
Users of prescribed weight-loss products have maintained their body weight and no changes in their physical heaviness are seen. However, the British Medical Journal found that the patients’ general health condition was improved using these drugs with lower cholesterol levels and reduced blood sugar content. With these, overweight patients are less likely to be hypertensive or diabetic even if they are fat.
Xenical, Meridia and Acomplia were identified as the three diet pills that seem to be ineffective in losing weight, especially on obese individuals. These drugs were analyzed by Canadian and Brazilian researchers and were not being recommended in the U.S.
But according to Dr. Raj Padwal, assistant professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, these drugs may not be magic cure for everybody but they help the patients in other ways like lowering their blood pressure and controlling their surging blood sugar.
Studies showed that a reduction of 11 pounds was recorded for the patients on the average as tested in obese men and women whose ages fall between 45 and 50 with an average weight of 220 pounds and a 35 body mass index. Participants of the study have used these prescribed drugs for at least a year up to four years.
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