Dangerous Diet Pills In the mid-'90s, the diet pill industry was booming. In 1996, more than 18 million dieters in the United States were taking a cocktail of the appetite suppressants fenfluramine (or dexfenfluramine) and phentermine, nicknamed fen-phen -- many with great success. But ...
The dangerous history of diet pills -- and their uncertain future The popularity of semaglutide is all too familiar to Tigress Osborn, chair of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. Osborn, like many fat rights and body neutrality activists and some health providers, rejects the ...
If phentermine sounds familiar, it may be because it was one-half of fen-phen, the cult-status pill cocktail deemed the holy grail of weight loss in the ‘90s for its ability to kill appetite and dissolve the pounds away. Fenfluramine-phentermine ultimately ended up causing serious heart an...
Less than a year ago, a new generation of diet pills seemed to offer the long-sought answer to our chronic weight problems. Hundreds of thousands of pound-conscious Americans had discovered that a drug combination known as "fen-phen" could shut off voracious appetites like magic, and the FDA...