Archives: September 2008
Wed Sep 24, 2008
Obesity and the Bail-Out
There is a relationship between obesity, the Wall Street collapse and the Federal bail-out. Follow me. Why are investment banks collapsing? The ultimate cause, not the proximate cause. Answer: Many Americans can't make their mortgage payments.
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Sat Sep 20, 2008
Many Meals versus a Few
Many patients have said they heard you can lose weight by eating five small meals a day instead of two or three larger ones. An obese patient even said her personal trainer told her she didn't lose weight because she didn't eat enough. Anyone will lie to you for money.
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Fri Sep 19, 2008
Crying in My Office
I have now seen 5000 people in my office, since March 1995, for the treatment of obesity. Three times I have had a patient cry in my office. Once the patient was depressed. Another time I misread the patient's body language and pushed too far; she started crying and abruptly left. I hated that. But you MUST push people to some degree or you don't get results. It happened only once, out of 5000 people.
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Mon Sep 15, 2008
Phentermine tablets stamped 'K 25' are authentic
I am now convinced that the phentermine 37.5 mg tablet from KVK Tech, Pennsylvania, is genuine.
It is stamped "K 25". I have attached a photo.
In a previous mailing I affirmed the genuiness of the tablet from Qualitest stamped "K" on one side and " 50 30" on the other, and the tablet from Actavis stamped "A159".
All are football shaped and either light blue or white with dark blue speckles.
I'm doing this because I can't be sure of the origin of the fake pills the patient showed me.
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Fri Sep 12, 2008
Even Some of the Phentermine Tablets are Fake Now
Doggone it, it's getting hard. Now some of the generic tablets sold at CVS are bogus, i.e. contain no phentermine. Most of the phentermine sold without prescription on the internet is bogus. Some of the capsules sold in pharmacies are fake, too. But this is the first time I have seen fake tablets. The patient who sent them to me complained that they did not work like per previous pills did, and indeed they look different. No little flecks of color. I added some of the pills to a sample of serum and sent it to the lab for phentermine level. Sure enough. No phentermine. A control sample using Adipex-P did show phentermine.
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Sat Sep 06, 2008
What does 'Serving Size' mean?
A patient asked me an interesting question. He asked, "What does the 'serving size' mean in the Nutrition tables on packages? Shouldn't they have different sizes for different people." Well duh. Yes. I'm embarrassed I never thought to wonder about it.
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Tue Sep 02, 2008
New Diet Books
Now that I'm doing full-time bariatrics, I'd like to do more TV and radio. Trouble is, they usually want you to have a new book for sale. They don't count a self-published book like "Life". Here are some recent new books. I heard the authors talk on NPR radio.
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