A British doctor has been struck off for selling diet pills illegally through his private clinic. The General Medical Council, who regulate doctors in the UK, heard that Dr. Bharat Berry sold unlicensed slimming pills at a slimming clinic.
Dr Bharat, 55, charged patients £10 per visit and offered unlicensed slimming pills that contained amphetemines, which [...]
Attention has been focused on Tyra Banks after she shocked New York with her dramatic and rapid weight loss. In photos published in various fashion magazines, she seemed to have dropped at least 4 dress sizes, going from a 14-16 to a size 8.
The star showed off her fast weight loss in a tight body-con [...]
A new study has shown that diet pills are effective partly because they encourage users to eat more healthily. Dieters who used the drugs and also cut out fatty food from their diets lost the greatest amount of weight, researchers said.
The study analysed data on 572 people who were prescribed the slimming pill orlistat, sold [...]
The internet can be useful for people trying to lose weight. As a source of help its invaluable, providing access to weight loss tips, weight loss plans or information about different diets, new slimming pills and calorie counters.
Podcasts have been around on the net for a while but generally have been used by comedians and [...]
New research conducted by the University of Surrey has revealed that dieters who used slimming pills and lost weight had also reduced the amount of fatty junk food they consumed.
The study analysed data from 572 people who had been prescribed the diet drug Orlistat by their GP. Orlistat is also known as Alli and Xenical [...]
Chinese police have raised a factory that was creating counterfeit diet pills after they received information from a bereaved mother whose daughter died after taking the drugs.
Law enforcement officials busted into a factory in Keohsing, which appeared to be producing legal drugs. In actuality, it was creating illegal slimming pills made from a mixture of [...]
