Blogger Jim Edwards has a list of “10 Weird Health Theories That Just Won’t Go Away.” Many of them flower from the backlash to the medical industrial complex’s desire to medicalize, and provide a pill for, all slightly different human behaviors. Others underscore how appropriate skepticism about modern medicine can lead to an over-correction and….
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Liposuction Produces Only Temporary Weight Loss
A pioneering new study of the popular liposuction surgery finds that the fat which a surgeon sucks out from one part of the body gets added back in elsewhere by Mother Nature. The study published in the journal Obesity found that within a year, all the fat suctioned out in a liposuction was regained by….
Continue ReadingFemale Hormone Injections for Weight Loss: Another Quack Remedy
Some unethical doctors are charging patients big bucks for prescriptions of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) for weight loss. Supposedly you can lose fat in just the right places, the belly for one, if you take daily hCG injections in your abdomen. The claims are sheer quackery. This use of hCG, a pregnancy hormone that is….
Continue ReadingEight years on, diet drug Meridia withdrawn from market
A diet drug which safety advocates called to be withdrawn from public use eight years ago has finally bit the dust. Under pressure from the Food and Drug Administration, the drug’s manufacturer, Abbott Laboratories, voluntarily pulled the drug from the market due to longstanding concerns that it increased the risk of heart attacks and strokes…..
Continue ReadingFat-Melting Injections: Dangerous, Unproven but Widely Available
LipoDissolve is the brand name for an injectable drug that is supposed to melt fat. The patient gets a series of injections that supposedly dissolve the bonds between fat cells, and the body then flushes the fat away. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Patients who’ve had these injections have told the Food and Drug Administration that….
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