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Other drugs available for ‘Weight Loss Reduce Cholesterol’

The medications for diminishing weight are not designed for insignificant or apparent weight loss but they are specifically designed for helping the obese people as the component of the general weight management plan. The weight loss drugs are not meant for use as the alternatives for the healthy diets and exercises. Instead all the clinical weight loss trials exhibit that the obesity medications works only when they are used in association with the healthy diet and regular exercise plans.

Basically there is a couple of FDA approved kind of obesity medications such as: the drugs that help diminishing appetite or hunger desire and the other that decreases the fat absorptions in the body. The drugs that diminish the hunger include certain prescription medications that especially work on certain biochemicals in the brain that generate the hunger signals. Most of the FDA approved drugs are for short-term treatments. Meridia with active ingredient Sibutramine is the only appetite suppressing medication which is approved by the FDA for long-term treatment.

Drugs for decreasing fat absorption are considered as the latest obesity medications like Xenical prepared by using the active ingredient Orlistat which acts in the stomach and the small intestine where it slows down the fat-digestion by up to 30 percent. Xenical is believed to be safe drug for the patients having hypertension or heart risks as it does not affect brain, heart rate or nervous system.

There are many drugs available for lowering cholesterol levels in the blood such as: the bile acid sequestrates; nicotinic acid or niacin, fibrin acids and cholesterol absorption inhibitors.

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