Overweight adults with osteoarthritis who lose just five percent of their body weight can reduce the amount of physical disability associated with this most common form of inflammatory joint disease, results of several studies suggest.
“It is more or less proven now that the most effective thing, if you have osteoarthritis of the knee, is weight […]
Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., Acting Commissioner
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2006–Dear Dr. von Eschenbach:This letter, based on an investigation published in the current issue of the Cancer Letter (”FDA Didn’t Tell Advisors About Data Linking Obesity Drug With Precancerous Lesions”), supplements our April 10th petition […]
Majority of the population today, is considered as overweight and is at the edge of inheriting cardiovascular diseases. A few extra pounds of your body weight count you up as obese. Obesity can put you in many embarrassing situations. You have odd working hours and find it almost impossible to join a fitness center. Tried […]
Prescription diet drug Xenical (orlistat) has come under renewed attack by a consumer-advocacy group even as the Food and Drug Administration weighs approval of an over-the-counter version of the diet pill.
Public Citizen, in a letter to the FDA, charged that undisclosed data linking Xenical to a higher risk of colon cancer was not provided to […]
If you suffer from obesity (BMI>30), act fast! CDC has recognized obesity as the number one health threat to the Americans.
The extra fat on the body could mean fatal consequences in the times to come. Extra pound of flesh means extra rounds of visits to the doctor. Obesity is the cause of major health hazards […]
Nobody likes to be called “obeseâ€?. Just because you have few extra pound of body weight, you are counted to be obese. Obesity must have put you into many embarrassing moments, but you could do nothing? Tried a lot many medicines and other weight reducing products, but nothing could help. No need to feel the […]
Kathleen Arnold has been larger than she wanted to be - as a teenager her weight was about 14 or 15 stones (88-95 kgs).
Other children tease her and she was reluctant to do sport.
Getting dressed and undressed in front of her classmates became a weekly torture.
Her confidence was very low and she […]