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Weight Loss Pill

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Megan McArdle points to a John Tierney article about a new medical study about "a new appetite-suppressing drug, tesofensine, [that] was twice as effective as existing drugs in helping people lose weight." The assumption seems to be that a weight-loss drug would produce the health benefits of losing weight. Count me as dubious. I'd bet that if you have an unhealthy diet and an unduly low amount of exercise, losing weight via a pill would not produce the same benefits (or any benefits at all) as if you changed your diet/exercise habits. By analogy, statins work very well at lowering cholesterol, but they're useless at reducing mortality. According to Business Week: Wright had a surprise when he looked at the data for the majority of patients, like Winn, who don't have heart disease...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).