Alexa Williams
10/23/09
There is a diabetes medication in the form of an injection that is seemingly more helpful in losing weight than the leading obesity drug. While this seems like an easy fix, it is expensive and you have to receive the injections once a day because the medicine will break down in the stomach and has to keep being re-injected. The drug apparently causes the body to produce more insulin and decreases appetite. Whether or not this drug could be used as a treatment for obesity is yet to be determined. Once one stops treatment, the weight is quickly put back on.
This is an interesting article because it is amazing the lengths people would consider going to lose weight. People will try most anything before diet and exercise. Sure there are some people that truly have genetic conditions causing their obesity, but being willing to take an injection every day for the rest of your life just to lose weight seems extreme. Hopefully the production of insulin will be a real help to people with diabetes, however, and not just an “easy” way to lose weight. The fact that it causes people to lose more weight than one of the leading weight lose drugs is very surprising, but seeing has obesity is one of the main causes of diabetes, it does actually make sense.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8321955.stm
2 comments:
Wow, that's interesting. I'm wondering how dangerous it could be though. It sounds like one of those things that people would get addicted to. People without diabetes would probably try to experiment with it, just viewing it as a way to lose weight.
Wow that is amazing. I wonder what they will come up with. I also wonder if the medication is dangerous and what might be the side effects?
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