Fat Attack! OEA: How Your Gut Says “Enough is Enough”

Written by Dan Gwartney, MD
Source: MuscularDevelopment.Com


Obesity has increasingly become a health crisis, causing lives to be shortened and medical care costs to skyrocket. Surprisingly, the government and media have demonized supplements and over-the-counter weight loss products. Obesity has increasingly become a health crisis, causing lives to be shortened and medical care costs to skyrocket. Surprisingly, the government and media have demonized supplements and over-the-counter weight loss products. Two effective weight loss ingredients, phenylpropanolamine (PPA, previously found in Dexatrim) and ephedrine (the active ingredient in ephedra-based supplements), have been removed from the market due to reported adverse side effects.1,2 The case against PPA has been criticized and appears to be insufficient for the action, particularly when one argument was that obesity is not a pressing concern to American health care.3 Ephedrine has been associated with serious consequences, including death, though many of the cases involved abuse of the Herbals for its stimulant effect or use by people with pre-existing disease or poor physical condition.4  Read More >>