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Concern over anti-obesity drugs
“Better data on the long-term effects of anti-obesity drugs is needed before more widespread use of the therapies, a Canadian study says.
Researchers said such drugs would become more important in the future to combat the growing obesity crisis.
But the University of Alberta Hospital said in the Lancet that data on drugs already in use was limited particularly over cardiovascular outcomes.”
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This provides further proof that surgery and medication are not the best ways to go about tackling obesity. People need more support in the form of encouragement to exercises and to eat healthily. If the same money was spent on a descent support structure as is spent on researching and testing drugs to tackle obesity, then it is possible that the situation would not be as dire as it is today.
The BBC article does go on to state that the drugs should really be limited to help
“if someone’s diabetes is out of control or if they need to lose weight for an operation.”
Nothing really beats a healthy diet and exercise, and education and encouragement of these thing from an early age.
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