American Nutrition
Today in America, people put a lot of emphasis on their appearance hoping to achieve the perfect figure. The perfect figure that the American public hopes to achieve is typically good looking, tall, and most importantly has to be thin. Being thin is probably the hardest part for the American population to accomplish and are willing to try almost anything to make it happen. Methods of doing so include extreme workouts, crazy diets, and as of late, taking diet pills. Taking diet pills has been the biggest craze in America when trying to lose weight. The newest drug, as of late is phen-fen, which promised results that would almost eliminate obesity. The thought of becoming thin just by taking a pill made phen-fen the most popular diet drug on the market. After its approval, many studies were conducted to determine whether this wonder drug had any long-term side affects. Much research later showed that phen-fen was the cause of an unusual heart disease, but it made people lose weight. When the results of these studies were released, magazines and newspapers around the globe informed people of the dangers of phen-fen. One such magazine was the "Harvard He
The second study used computerized medical records to follow four groups of patients: those taking dexfenfluramine, those taking fenfluramine, those taking phentermine, and those who had never taken appetite suppressants. For the next four years, there were no new heart diseases within the group who had never taken appetite suppressants. The other groups, however, displayed different results. There were a small number of new heart diseases with people that had taken the drugs for less than three months. But, the people who had used them for an extended period of time displayed significantly higher. The New England Medical Journal conducted three different studies on the effect phen-fen had on the human body. Researchers, in the first study, used echocardiograms, images of the heart using sound waves, to see if there was any difference between people who had used phen-fen, and people that had never touched it. Within the group that did not use the drug, only 1.9% showed heart-valve abnormalities. However, the group that had taken it, the range was between 13-26% of displaying heart-valve abnormalities. The groups both had 32 participants, but the grou
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