tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/28/2008
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How long until there's a drug that makes it easy for anyone to be thin?
My question is prompted by a a report in the Lancet from a team of Danish researchers who found that a new appetite-suppressing drug, tesofensine, was twice as effective as existing drugs in helping people lose weight. (If ...
powerlineblog.com - 11/1/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
From Drudge : Zogby's polling yesterday had John
McCain pulling into a one-point lead, 48-47, over Barack...
Obama. That result is an outlier, I suppose, but Obama has never been able to seal the deal with the voters and quite a few remain undecided, ...
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The Fat Lady Is Still Warming Up
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 10/28/2008
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John Tierney asks how long it will be
until we have a drug that can make everyone...
thin. I wonder whether, if we got one, everyone would still want to be thin. The obsession with thinness is a wealth marker. Just as it only became ...
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The end of the war on fat?
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The end of the war on fat?
Megan McArdle —
John Tierney asks how long it will be until we have a drug that can make everyone thin. I wonder whether, if we got one, everyone would still want to be thin. The obsession with thinness is a wealth marker. Just as it only became cool to get a tan when most working stiffs were pasty white from long hours indoors, the easier it is for poor people to get fat, the harder rich people work to get thin. The rate of obesity is twice as high among the poor as among the rich. ...
Weight Loss Pill
The Buck Stops Here —
... points to a John Tierney article about a new medical study about "a new appetite-suppressing drug, tesofensine, [that] was twice as effective as existing drugs in helping people lose weight." The assumption seems to be that a weight-loss drug would produce the health benefits of losing weight. ...
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