I have repeatedly heard about the hCG diet, with many claims about tremendous weight loss on a very restrictive diet and the hCG oral drops. I have been skeptical of the results, even though there are many avid fans. Is this a good diet for people needing to lose 20-30 pounds?
Companies are refusing the FDA's request to pull diet pills off shelves. Elizabeth Cohen reports.
The names of the weight-loss supplements say it all: 7 Day Herbal Slim, 2 Day Diet, and even 24 Hours Diet. Those are just three of dozens of different brands touted as all-natural ways to shed pounds, and lose them super fast.
Drugs won't lead to dramatic weight loss, a study finds, but they do take off pounds and have other health benefits
With more than 300 million obese people in the world, it's no surprise that prescription weight-loss drugs alone are a $600 million market -- or that those drugs rarely work well. Some, like Xenical and Meridia, also have significant side effects, such as raised blood pressure.
A California biotech could be on its way to a diet drug blockbuster or tiptoeing through a minefield depending on the performance of its next miracle weight loss treatment.
Millions of Americans are still waiting for their weight-loss wonder drug, and the inventor of such a drug stands to make a fortune.
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Union Pacific Railroad has long known that many of its 48,000 employees--mostly middle-aged men--are overweight. That can be a dangerous problem for people who ply the rails. So 16 years ago the Om...
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