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

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

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“Doctor,” she said, “I need your help losing weight.” I spent the next several minutes speaking … In the nineteen-forties, when doctors began prescribing amphetamines for weight loss, rates of addiction soared. Then, in the nineties, fen-phen, … In …
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Complete list of Sundance Film Festival selections: US and World competitions

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Fed Up / U.S.A. (Director: Stephanie Soechtig) — Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American …
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Christian-bashing doesn't help anyone

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… views and history of what someone homeless goes through here and who helps them. In several op-eds, I have asked people who have criticized Teen Challenge, Betty Chinn or the Rescue Mission to take someone homeless to their house, provide them food …
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