Posts tagged with: diet
Xenical
Xenical capsules contain the active ingredient orlistat, which is a type of medicine called a lipase inhibitor. It is used to help those who suffer from over-weight or obesity. According to the (PIL) Patient Information Leaflet, Xenical works in your digestive system to... [Read more]
Asthma and Obesity
Formoterol works by opening up the air passages in the lungs so that air can flow into the lungs more freely. In doing so it helps to relieve symptoms such as coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath. Here is the connection it has with obesity. Lead author Dr. Paul Lee,... [Read more]
Orlistat
Orlistat (marketed as a prescription under the trade name Xenical by Roche in most countries, or over-the-counter as Alli by GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom and the United States). Xenical is a medicine used to treat obesity. It works in your digestive system to block... [Read more]
Sea Kelp To Battle Obesity
Over weight, diet after diet, nothing seems to work, just maybe help is at hand in the form of seaweed yes that’s what I said seaweed. It appears biochemists out of Newcastle University have been adding a fibre found in sea kelp to bread in an effort to develop foods... [Read more]
Ciprofibrate
Ciprofibrate is used to lower high lipid (fat) levels in the blood (hyperlipidaemia). These lipids include cholesterol and triglycerides the medication itself belongs to a group of drugs known as fibrates. Apart from lowering low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol being... [Read more]
Rosiglitazone
Rosiglitazone is an anti-diabetic drug in the thiazolidinedione class of drugs and is used to treat type 2 diabetes known as non-insulin dependant diabetes mellitus. It can be used alone or combined with metformin or with a sulphonylurea or with both. It’s function... [Read more]
Mediterranean Diet: Depression Free Living?
Eating your way out of depression has been a topic of some discussion for many years now and it would not be wrong to think there are many everyday foods out there that can help us do just that. With this in mind I would like to discuss yet another ‘we are what we... [Read more]
Exercise and Diet
Well here is a little bit of really useful information, or is it. A little while ago now I read an article penned by Emily Cook, the Daily Mirror Health Correspondent about research into a polypill. Her story was about a research team lead by Professor Malcolm Law, of the... [Read more]
Health and Wealth
We are constantly being told whether by radio, television, media etc that if we take today’s figures at face value there has been a large increase in the number of people over-weight, now than at any other time in the past. For some years there has been a continual... [Read more]
