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Weight loss medications:     also called anti-obesity medicines,but they only work if calorie intake is also controlled, eating junk will counter their effect and you will end up saying these medicines are not working for me or will blame the prescriber that they don't know the medicine,Over the past few years FDA has approved weight loss drugs most of them works by reducing your appetite and food cravings so basically they control the number of calories take per day which eventually control your body weight. Appetite suppressants target serotonin and norepinephrine in this process, where serotonin makes you feel that your tummy is full while on the other hand nor epinephrine stimulates the CNS and decreases the appetite.   Who should use these medications?   A person having BMI greater than 27 along with other risk factors such as diabetes or higher cholesterol level or a person with BMI greater than 30 with no other risk factors are the best suitable candidates for...

  OBESITY AND DEPRESSION: which comes first?   What is depression? How could you define depression? had always been a puzzle.Many people are depressed and they don't even know it while others seem depressed but actually they aren't. However depression primarily consist of two components that are: psychological (which affects mood) and physical( which affects sleep and appetite). A recent study showed that depression is leading cause of functional disability among U.S adults. How can we measure depression?     Beck depression inventory (B.D.I) is the most commonly used scale for the measurement of depression: It is a kind of questionnaire which consist of 21 questions out of which l   Psychological sub scale contain 8 items l   Physical sub scale contain 13 items      Cognitive or psychological sub scale Past failure Pessimism                    ...