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Diet Drug Treatment for Obesity Drug treatment for obesity has an awfully shady history. Women have been abused repeatedly by the medical system. Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and even 1970s, women were prescribed thyroxine, which is thyroid hormone, to speed up their metabolisms. Unless a person has an underactive thyroid gland, or no thyroid gland (which may have been surgically removed), this is a very dangerous medication, which can cause heart failure. Request a thyroid function test before you accept this medication.
Serving sizes are also confusing. Foods that are similar are given the same type of serving size defined by the FDA. That means that five cereals that all weigh X grams per cup will share the same serving sizes. Calories (how much energy) and calories from fat (how much fat) are also listed per serving of food. S. government. ) That’s not where the confusion ends—or even begins! You have to wade through the various claims on the label and understand what they mean. For example, anything that is “X free” (as in sugar free, saturated fat free, cholesterol free, sodium free, calorie free, and so on) means that the product indeed has no X or that X is so tiny, it is insignificant.
The advertiser may, in fact, say that the product contains “no saturated fat” or is “healthier” than the comparable animal or tropical oil product with saturated fat. So be careful out there: Read your labels. ” If the product lists a variety of unsaturated fats (monounsaturated X oil, polyunsaturated Y oil, and so on), keep reading. If the word hydrogenated appears, count that product as a saturated fat; your body will! ” Are we making our batters bitter or better with margarine? It depends. Since the news of trans-fatty acids broke in the late 1980s, margarine manufacturers began to offer some less “bitter” margarines; some contain no hydrogenated oils, while others have much smaller amounts.