[ladydoc]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

I agree. They're looking for a diet pill that will be safe for long term usage. However, no pill will ever teach anyone how to eat a healthy diet or live a healthy lifestyle in general. As a matter of fact, it will likely accomplish the opposite. From my experience, most overweight and obese people don't like healthy whole foods, like fresh fruit and non-starchy vegetables. And if you give them a pill to suppresses their appetite, they will dislike the healthy foods even more. So they will eat even less of the healthy foods that they needed in the first place.
So, in my opinion, there will never be such a thing as a safe long term appetite suppressant. In the long term, it will cause them to be malnurished with possible side effects from the weight loss medications. They will just be trading one problem for another.

In the study I read, there was no mention of what the diet consisted of. It just said that it was a low-calorie crash diet. Also, there was no mention of why 10 out of 50 were successful and kept the weight off. I find that strange.

Most of the articles I have read about keeping weight off put the percentage of success as much less then 20%....