Category Archives: Weight Loss Drugs

KE Diet Side Effects and Health Risks

KE Diet Side Effects and Health Risks. Would you put a tube up your nose just to lose weight? Sounds extreme, doesn’t it? And it is. But that’s exactly what desperate brides are doing now, in the United States.

But long before this diet fad — called the K-E diet — reached its shores, it had already taken root in Europe, in countries like Italy and Spain, where it’s routinely used to lose weight before a big event and for more significant weight loss, the New York Times reports.

The Times report went on to say, “In England, where it has been offered for the past year as the KEN — or ketogenic enteral nutrition — diet, The Daily Mail asked if it was ‘the most extreme diet ever,’ before adding that a National Health Service doctor was offering it.”

In February, the British newspaper The Guardian reported that 1,200 patients in the United Kingdom went under the “diet tube” last year — and clinics offering the procedure have popped up all over Europe.

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Laser Acupuncture for Weight Loss and Obesity

Laser Acupuncture for Weight Loss and Obesity. In an earlier post, we mentioned that laser acupuncture does not have a significant impact on making smokers quit. You can read about this in the following link: Laser Acupuncture to Quit Smoking.

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Now, how about losing weight? Does laser acupuncture help you or a loved one shed the pounds? Would it be one of the tools that could help put a stop to the obesity epidemic that’s sweeping America and the world? Can laser acupuncture help transform you into the next Chris Pratt?

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Lap Band Side Effects and Risks: Dehydration and Nausea

Lap Band Side Effects, Misleading Ads, and Other Stuff: The United States Food and Drug Administration has asked eight California surgical centers to correct their “misleading” ads for the Lap-Band weight-loss device, the agency announced.

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The FDA said it sent letters to the eight surgical clinics, warning them that their advertising for the Lap-Band failed to provide required risk information, including warnings, precautions, possible side effects and contraindications.

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AspireAssist Side Effects: Pain, Infection, Vomiting

AspireAssist Side Effects. AspireAssist is probably the weirdest weight-loss technique we will ever hear of. But weird or not, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved AspireAssist after a clinical trial proved that it is effective in making users lose weight.

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How does it work? They say a picture speaks a thousand word so we “borrowed” the image below from livescience.com because it easily and clearly shows how AspireAssist works:

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Dinitrophenol Side Effects of DNP Weight Loss Drug: Death?

What is 2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP)? Why are some people buying dinitrophenol as a diet pill? Is it effective for weight loss? Or are people who buy dinitrophenol for weight loss wasting their money and risking their lives?

If you believe the merchants who are illegally selling DNP, this drug is the best weight loss drug of them all because it will boost your metabolism and you will shed some pounds even if you don’t exercise or watch what you eat. However, government agencies are issuing warnings on this drug because of its very bad (and deadly) side effects.

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Dinitrophenol Side Effects. According to the UK NHS, dinitrophenol has the following side effects: Continue reading Dinitrophenol Side Effects of DNP Weight Loss Drug: Death?