Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them?

Re:Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them? by at-fates-hands on Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:29AM (#6854829)

It's as much about the unhealthy lifestyles which are promoted as it is about the "internet" society we live in. People simply want something right now. They don't want to go to the gym and do the hard work and lose those 10lbs over say six to eight months. They want to take a pill so they can lose 10-20lbs over two months.

It's like anything in life. You have to put in the hard work to get the results you want. I feel like giving people a pill is taking the easy way out.

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Re:Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them? by JamesArgo on Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:33AM (#6854855)

One should avoid falling into the trap of thoughtlessly shunning quick, easy solutions.

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Re:Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them? by dpark on Thursday December 05, 2013 @11:04AM (#6855080)

>They don't want to go to the gym and do the hard work and lose those 10lbs over say six to eight months.

I wouldn't want to do that, either. That's miserably slow. A pound per week (which is a fairly slow weight loss, equivalent to a roughly 500 Calorie/day deficit) loses you about 24 pounds in 6 months. Two pounds per week is still well within the healthy range and gets you nearly 50 pounds lost in 6 months.

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Re:Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them? by seiji on Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:33AM (#6854857)

10lbs over say six to eight months.

That's a long time. Go keto and drop 5 pounds a week.

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