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Re: How do diet pills work?

Date: Wed May 12 16:49:50 1999
Posted By: George Papazaf, Post-doc/Fellow, Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmasist
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 926376343.Me
Message:

The diet pills have various ways of acting!
Some of them the have some ingredients that allow them to get larger in the 
stomach and give you the sense that you ate a ton of food, and so 
you don't want to eat more.
Another kind and more dangerous is that they act in the brain in the food 
area, an area that controls the hunger, and block it.
There are also products that they block some enzymes that allow the fats 
to pass to the blood and eventually accumulats in the adipose tissue.
A category of of them that act in the â3 adrenergic receptor is under 
study, but till now they work only in rats!



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