Another diet drug bites the dust

According to Canadian researchers, Xenical aka Alli aka Oilyshit has shown to potentially increase kidney problems. It can also cause liver damage in rare cases. Public Citizen is asking that the drugs be removed from the market. This is on top of Meridia finally being pulled.  Even Glaxo, the makers of Alli are abandoning the sinking ship by selling the brand.

Glaxo once tipped Alli as a possible blockbuster, but sales never took off, and the drug was hurt last year by reports that a small number of people taking it experienced liver damage...

Here is my mantra again: NO diet drug has been proven to work in the long run. In fact some of them are dangerous.  From the same article about Glaxo: Glaxo hoped to fight that phenomenon by marketing Alli as only part of a sensible dieting plan that also needed to include healthy eating and exercise.  This is pretty much exactly how dexatrim the first OTC diet drug I ever took was marketed. (It turn out dexatrim had Phenylpropanolamine which can cause strokes)

So once Alli is finally off the market, after causing both kidney damage and embarrassing oily stains, drug companies are working overtime to get the new obesity drug out and they are working hard to get Qnexa approved (Despite a previous FDA rejection.) 

I'm sure that there are many drugs that help people. I know many people alive who would be dead or have a severely diminished life if it wasn't for drugs. However diet drugs won't do this. They won't save a life (They have in fact killed many people), they won't make people's lives better (unless you call kidney disease and liver problems a better life) and they won't make you thin.  

You might as well do Health at Every Size. You eat well, you learn to enjoy food, and movement and there is no kidney damage.