One politician fattened his shoulder pads by the week to hide his loss of weight.
According to the Department of Health report, when vaccines against anthrax and pertussis (whooping cough) were administered simultaneously to animals, it resulted in a severe loss of weight and deterioration in their physical condition.
According to the FDA, in clinical trials, at one year, patients taking the recommended dose had an average weight loss of 6.7%, while patients taking the higher dose had an average weight loss of 8.9%, when compared to patients taking placebo.
Obesity drug developer Vivus posted results from a 2-year study of its combination weight loss pill Qnexa this morning, showing maintenance of an 11.4% and 10.4% weight loss for patients taking two doses of the medicine, compared to 2.5% for patients on placebo.
In that same year, counterfeits of the weight-loss drug Alli sold over the Internet contained none of the active ingredient in the real drug but did contain sibutramine, the prescription-strength weight-loss drug Meridia, which has since been removed from the U.S. market because of concerns about cardiac side effects.
However, the researchers did find that black dieters (with an average weight loss of 4.2 pounds) seemed to have a harder time losing weight than white dieters (with an average of 14.7 pounds).
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In one study, the average weight loss for a group taking a higher dose (32 mg) of naltrexone plus bupropion for about a year was 6.1% while for a lower dose (16 mg) it was 5%. (People taking a placebo had an average weight loss of 1.3%.) However, only half the participants who started the trial actually finished it.
Your two-pound-per-week rate of weight loss is safe and healthy, so I'm not concerned that you have lost weight too quickly, leading to a plateau.
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At the end of four months, participants, who dwindled from 230 to 166, recorded an average weight loss of 6.4%.
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But the effects of weight loss on health care costs are tough to measure, says Burton.
The followers on his website have encouraged him with their own tales of weight loss.
The 4, 430 overweight and obese patients in the Qsymia studies experienced various levels of weight loss.
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But this also means that a small amount of weight loss can make a big difference, particularly among women who are overweight, he said.
Thinking back on his early days of break dancing, Drury thought he could make the idea of weight loss through dancing relevant to the public.
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Instead, the AHA advises dieters to drop pounds in the traditional way -- by reducing fat intake and aiming for a weight loss of two to four pounds each month.
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This is because they rely on static models of weight loss rather than dynamic models that account for the way the body adjusts to reducing food intake by reducing energy expenditure.
He recently published a paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine showing that an 18% tax on soda would lead to five pounds of weight loss for Americans annually and a reduced diabetes risk.
In one National Cancer Institute-sponsored study, weight loss of greater than 5 percent from baseline was a predictor of poor outcome, independent of cancer stage, type of cancer, and patient performance status.
For instance, two recent studies by the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Agriculture found that most soda tax proposals significantly overstate the amount of weight loss they would generate.
Trouble is, the myths surrounding weight loss are widely held and longstanding (including this list from an article just last week in the New York Times: Myths of Weight Loss Are Plentiful, Researcher Says).
Moreover, fellow multilevel marketing companies Mary Kay Cosmetics or ViSalus, another purveyor of weight loss and nutritional supplements, have both been the subject of scathing take-downs by journalists within the past few months.
Both Novartis and Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) are nearing FDA approval for once-a-day pills that work in a fashion similar to Byetta, although without the promise of weight loss.
In addition to the visuals, Connerty insists that each ad describe the meals, make a promise of weight loss, dangle a special deal like "one week free" as bait, deliver a call-right-now command and pack in toll-free numbers.
He said one way to minimise the risk of the condition going undiagnosed would be to weigh patients every time they sought medical help, so that any signs of weight loss would be recorded at an early stage.
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Overall, given the strength of 1- and 2-year weight-loss and the nature of FDA concerns, we continue to believe that Qnexa is an approvable drug.
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