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What they can do, say the experts, is give obese patients a powerful head start on weight loss. Redux is revolutionary, explains author Levine, because "it overcomes the loss of confidence in one's own diet. The feeling that the drug gives you is the key." That's the attitude of Barbara Dorsett, the Red Lobster survivor: "I'm just so thankful they discovered this stuff," she says. "I felt so old and decrepit. It's like a new lease on life...
...Redux is revolutionary in a deeper sense as well: it represents a profound change in the way medical science looks at obesity. "There is an increasing consensus," says Dr. Michael Lowe, a weight- control expert at Philadelphia's Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, "that obesity is at least a chronic condition and maybe even a chronic disease that is in many ways indistinguishable from diabetes and hypertension...
...basis of overweight. Molecular biologists, for example, have identified five genes in mice that control food metabolism and that, if damaged, can lead to chubby rodents. In humans, physiologists are beginning to track the multiple hormones that conspire to keep fat people fat and thin people thin. And as Redux and fen/phen demonstrate, neurologists are beginning to sort out the brain chemistry involved in appetite...
...these lines of research are making it clear that attacking obesity as a physiological disorder is scientifically sound and that Redux--imperfect though it may be--is a step in the right direction. Says Yale psychologist Kelly Brownell: "We're at a historic moment in the treatment of obesity. The drugs themselves are less important than the fact that drugs for obesity are again on the scene." A new generation of antiobesity medicines is in the pipeline, under active development by drug companies, and yet another generation is sure to follow. As popular as Redux may be, both...
Then I heard about Redux, the latest revolution in weight control. I'd never taken pills like that before. Even in college, when others gobbled speedy white crosses, I stuck to black coffee. But Redux isn't an amphetamine, isn't addictive, and has limited side effects. I knew I wasn't the ideal candidate for the drug--it's supposed to be used by Chris Farley-type fatties, not guys with little potbellies. Still, I was determined to give it a whirl. I went to one of the new pill mills that have sprung up around Los Angeles...