Landmark Trial Reveals ‘Holy Grail’ Diet Pill That Boosts Weight Loss Without Harming Heart
27th August 2018
Sold as Belviq in the US since 2013, lorcaserin is the first weight-loss medicine to successfully pass a long-term safety study now required by regulators to stay on the market.
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Taken twice a day, the drug is an appetite suppressant that works by stimulating brain chemicals to induce a feeling of fullness.
Appetite suppressants only work to lose weight for people who only eat when they are actually hungry. Most people eat three times a day out of habit, and eat beyond the full point because they were trained by their parents to eat everything in front of them. (Remember the ‘Clean Plate Club’? I do.)
The key to weight control is to stop eating when you stop being hungry, no matter how much food is still uneaten. Yes, you wind up wasting food at first, but you soon adjust your portions to your appetite.