Diet drug 'doubles weight loss'

See the article below.

"An anti-obesity drug vastly outperforms currently available rivals, early trials suggest.

Danish tests of tesofensine, reported in The Lancet, found dieting patients on the highest doses lost up to 12.8kg (28.2lbs) in six months.

This is twice the level achieved by drugs such as sibutramine and rimonabant...

The drugs did produce side-effects, ranging from dry mouth and insomnia to nausea and diarrhoea, with the highest dose increasing patients' blood pressure, a concern given that many obese patients may have heart problems or diabetes...

Professor Steve O'Rahilly, an obesity expert at the University of Cambridge, said: 'If we could treat obesity like we treat high blood pressure, with safe, effective and affordable drugs, this would be an enormous boon to health care.

'However, to date obesity drugs that have been effective have not been safe, and conversely those that are safer are relatively ineffective.

'The results with this new drug demonstrate that, over a six-month period, it is quite effective.

'However, as the drug is likely to have actions on parts of the brain not involved in weight control, the risk of serious side-effects on longer term administration will need to be watched very carefully."

Which they probably will not/cannot do as complications surface years after drugs are released.

There are better ways to shed the pounds.