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New Diet Pill
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ANCHORAGE - Seeing as we are in the midst of summer, there is a new diet pill on the market, "Alli" is the first and only over-the-counter diet pill to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration - so, is it safe and does it really work, ABC Alaska news found out the deal about the new drug.
The "Alli" diet pill was released last Friday and has been selling out all over the nation. The chemical name for this drug is "Orlistat," and it's an over the counter version of the prescription drug "Xenical."
The diet pill's primary function is to decrease the amount of fat absorbed by the body. The drug works as a "fat-inhibitor" which ties up Lipids and Fats and keeps them from being absorbed into the gastro-intestinal tract.
Advertisements for this pill claim that when you take "Alli" along with a reduced calorie, low-fat diet, you can lose 50% more weight than with dieting alone.
The problem lies with the people who are rushing out to buy this drug, are they aware of the potentially uncomfortable and embarrassing side effects?
The known side effects are not harmful to your body, they may just cause excess gs or an urgency to go to the bathroom, while taking the "Alli" diet pill may help you lose weight, Physicians say it won't do all the work for you.
ABC Alaska news spoke with a local doctor and personal trainer to get their opinion of this new over-the-counter weight loss pill, and according to Patrick Curtis, a fitness trainer at the Alaska Club, "The diet, the exercise, really again adhering to the well rounding minimal for benefit is really the best starting points and something else that enhances that again I can't comment on that."
And Dr. Bruce Kiessling, of Primary Care Associates said, "What Orlistat does is punish you for bad choices, if you have too much fat in your diet than your gonna have events, and those events really aren't that pleasant and thats suppose to motivate the person to stay away from the fats."
The side effects are referred to as "treatment effects" and they can be lessened if you stick to a reduced calorie, low-fat meals that average 15-grams of fat per meal.
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