Everybody is curios about the last year reports for Acomplia benefits!

As the obesity crisis worsens and more pharmaceutical companies are hoping to improve their bottom line by shrinking their customers’ bottoms. After all, we are a short-cut society (who wouldn’t rather pop a pill than engage in the hard work of exercise and calorie restriction?) with a short memory (remember the fen-phen diet-drug combo that led to a gazillion lawsuits?). The good news is that according to a recent report in the British Medical Journal, three relatively new antiobesity drugs helped patients lose a moderate amount of weight while doing such things as lowering cholesterol and reducing the incidence of diabetes. The bad news is that the list of possible side effects doesn’t end there.

The study found that both of the diet pills the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved for long-term use may lead to a modest weight loss of about 5% to 10% of a person’s total body mass within the course of a year.

Approved by the European Drug Agency in June 2006 and sold under the name Acomplia, rimonabant takes a different weight-loss route than Meridia, which revs up metabolism and creates a feeling of fullness, and Alli, which reduces fat absorption from food. Rimonabant is the first of a new class of drugs designed to keep the user from getting the munchies. That’s right: knowing that marijuana and other forms of cannabis stimulate the appetite, scientists wondered what might happen if they blocked the brain’s cannabinoid receptors.Not only did the desire for food seem to diminish with rimonabant but other cravings, like nicotine, were easier to control.

The FDA panel nixed rimonabant’s application for approval due to concerns that the drug increases the risk of depression.So basically Fda must obtain more information about It right?

No you see its all politics.We all know that side effects are inevitable but I say that Acomplia its the first diet pill  for long term usage with minor side effects.Lets think about Xenical or phentermine this 2 pills are crimal and made lot of trouble and still they were approved.

So why is not Acomplia aprroved in the US.Its simple the USA FDA is waiting for Merck option (manufacturer and distributor of pharmaceuticals) they developed a new diet pill called Taranbant.Even if the trial results of Taranabant are not significant it doesn’t matter.Merck is a Us Laboratory ,so why not wait for them instead approving Acomplia developed by Sanofi Aventis - French Laboratory.

Its not fair but we are talking about business and money here!!