Xenical or Orlistat Fat Blockers

The health and fitness industry is getting ready for a fight.
More specifically, personal trainers are getting ready for a few
verbal confrontations.

The reason? Fitness and weight loss clients are going to want to
take another easy route instead of putting in the hard work
required to loss weight and stay healthy. Personal fitness
trainers are going to have to be ready to set their clients
straight. Another diet pill may soon be marching its way into
everyone’s kitchen cupboards. The health advisory board for the
FDA has voted to recommend over-the-counter sales of a
weight-loss pill now sold only as a prescription medication.

The drug company GlaxoSmithKline is hoping before the end of
this year, customers will be able to buy the fat-blocking pill
without a doctor’s prescription. This will be the first
over-the-counter diet drug to win approval from the Food & Drug
Administration. As a personal trainer, this is obviously
something that would be of concern to me.

You see, even if the pill can safely deliver weight loss, no
lifestyle changes have been learned. What will happen is limited
time weight loss that will return once the pill use has stopped.
In essence, it is reverse steroid use. Just like the guys that
get big muscles for 12 weeks and then lose it all just as quick,
the weight will come back for pill popping dieters. The reason
is the lack of knowledge and dedication to do it the slow and
right way. The way that takes correctly applied effort.

The good news is that the drug company still needs final FDA
approval before it can sell an over-the-counter version of the
diet pill orlistat which is now sold by prescription under the
brand name Xenical. My concern is not with chronically obese
people that are at health risk. Sometimes for sake of life or
death, a doctor supervised weight loss program including
medication is necessary for short term and meaningful weight
loss.

My concern is for the young people and middle aged babyboomers
with 30-50 pounds to lose. I’m afraid that there will be
confusion between what a Fat Blocker and weight loss pill really
do. This over the counter pill will block fat, which does not
mean that with this pill you can consume all the chocolate you
want. You get fat by eating too many calories. You can block
fat, but you still have to watch sugars and other excess
calories.

If orlistat gets approval it will be the first weight-loss drug
given over-the-counter status. The pharmaceutical company Roche
is going to continue to sell Xenical regardless of the outcome
from the FDA.

If we could all show a little self control in our diets and get
outside to enjoy life the way it is supposed to be enjoyed, we
wouldn’t need to put these foreign substances into our bodies.

If you are sitting on the couch, get up. There is plenty of
time for rest in the grave. If you can’t stop putting food in
your mouth, figure out why the only satisfaction in your life is
overfeeding your body and change. Take care of yourself, enjoy
life and stop padding the drug company’s wallets.

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