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Originally Posted by Villages PL
During this past year or so, I have noticed 3 diet related studies reported by MCCLATCHY News. What they all have in common is: 1) They were all conducted in foreign countries 2) The conclusions were all discouraging and 3) They were all by MCCLATCHY.
The headline of the latest one of Oct. 28, 2011: Hormones feed hunger after weight loss, researchers say.
The study was conducted by the University of Melbourne's Department of Medicine, in Australia. After the study was completed, the lead researcher concluded that a combination of medications would need to be developed. That's because 80 percent of obese subjects regained the weight they lost, due to a number of bodily hormones that made them hungry.
Do you see, as I do, a potential for bias in this study? Would a department of medicine ever design a study to prove that no medication is needed? (Especially if the study is funded by a pharmaceutical
company, which quite likely it was.)
Are we being played for fools? There were 3 stories this year (by MCCLATCHYwhereby the average person would likely conclude: 1) It's hopeless to try to
lose a lot of weight and keep it off and (2 Don't try to be healthy because your
health and longevity is genetically predetermined.  |
Dr.Oz loves this stuff. I'm sure he'll use it to promote his Flavour-of-the-day solution. There's a ton
of money to be made from wrinkles who want to stay slim and healthy, and find a magic solution. Most people find the "eat less and exercise more" mantra to be too boring! I'm sure that all the
drug companies are frantically trying to find another appetite suppressant pill, similar to Fen-Fen in the 1980s, which was approved and then removed from the market.