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Only a year and a half after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the sale of diet supplements containing ephedra, bitter orange peel is becoming increasingly popular as a substitute for that appetite suppressant.
A new study from the University of California, San Francisco has shown, that in similar doses, bitter orange alone is not […]

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Phentermine is an appetite suppressant for the short-term treatment of obesity. Because of its small molecular weight (149), this drug probably transfers readily and in significant quantity into human milk. It could cause stimulation, anorexia, tremors and other central nervous system effects in the nursing baby. This medication should not be used by nursing mothers […]

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Middle-age people who are overweight but have normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels are kidding themselves if they think their health is just fine.
Northwestern University researchers tracked 17,643 patients for three decades and found that being overweight in mid-life substantially increased the risk of dying of heart disease later in life — even in people […]

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