Drug diet

There is now a potential pathway to finding anti-obesity drugs. However it might mess up your immune system as well, therefore scientists are still tentative. I am sceptical. Is taking medication really the right answer to reducing weight? It's debatable whether obesity can be medicated, as it isn't really a disease. 

Jamie Oliver's new TV show "Britain on a Plate", includes a woman who has 10 packets of crisps for dinner. His aim is to reeducate the residents of the town about healthy eating. There has built controversy within the town he filmed in because some residents believe his show came across as patronizing and suggested everyone who lives there survives on exceedingly unhealthy diets.

Cutting out crisps probably isn't the only answer to reducing obesity. Anti obesity drugs, if they existed could ease morbidly obese people into better health more smoothly. Oliver certainly does put families to shame with their eating habits. Perhaps the tone of the show didn't hit the right notes with the residents, however I do agree that diet should be the most fundamental option for losing weight. 

Medication could easily swing the focus away from the fundamentals of healthy eating and exercise to maintain weight. I don't believe a slimming pill would deal with the underlying problems in our society and how weight is controlled. 

*According to the new research the more you eat, the hungrier you become. When US researchers gave mice a diet high in fat and sugar they started eating more. This was said to be due to a protein being switched on, which caused inflammatory reactions. The inflammatory reaction appears to be related to appetite because when the protein pathway was genetically removed, the mice stayed slim, despite their fatty and high in sugar diets. Therefore drugs that control the inflammatory pathway could help control our weight.*