http://www.dietcomment.com News & Review on Slimming Centres, Asethetics Clinics and Dieting Pills in Singapore Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:45:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/slimming-drugs-with-stroke-risk-not-banned/ http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/slimming-drugs-with-stroke-risk-not-banned/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:37:36 +0000 http://www.dietcomment.com/?p=585 By Salma Khalik POPULAR weight-loss drugs such as Reductil, banned in the European Union (EU) last month for raising one’s risk of heart attacks and strokes, will continue to be sold in Singapore. The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) here said the drugs carry sufficient warning on their packaging, so it will allow their continued sale. The EU’s health [...]]]> http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/slimming-drugs-with-stroke-risk-not-banned/feed/ 0 http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/fat-transfers-to-breasts-more-successful-now/ http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/fat-transfers-to-breasts-more-successful-now/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:46:56 +0000 http://www.dietcomment.com/?p=565 I remember reading with great interest, about procedures that weren’t all that common a few years ago, but were in the process of being perfected, where some surgeons were able to transfer fat from say, a woman’s thighs and buttocks or belly, or other common places where women tend to store their extra padding, to [...]]]> http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/fat-transfers-to-breasts-more-successful-now/feed/ 0 http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/died-from-intestine-tears-punctures-to-intestines/ http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/died-from-intestine-tears-punctures-to-intestines/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:10:17 +0000 http://www.dietcomment.com/?p=579 Franklin Heng’s death certificate shows he had punctures in his intestines due to liposuction Property head honcho Franklin Heng died from punctures to his intestines sustained during liposuction surgery last December. The 44-year-old’s death certificate, obtained by The Sunday Times last Friday, indicated that the cause of death was ‘multiple iatrogenic punctures of the intestines due to [...]]]> http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/died-from-intestine-tears-punctures-to-intestines/feed/ 0 http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/plastic-surgery-know-about-the-risks-involved-in-fat-transfer/ http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/plastic-surgery-know-about-the-risks-involved-in-fat-transfer/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:50:06 +0000 http://www.dietcomment.com/?p=570 The method of transferring fat from one area of the body to another originally began over one hundred years ago in Germany in order to aid in a person’s facial deformity. Today it is a technique used in a variety of body regions for a variety of reasons. An age old joke among women desiring a [...]]]> http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/plastic-surgery-know-about-the-risks-involved-in-fat-transfer/feed/ 0 http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/is-phentermine-the-same-a-sibutramine/ http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/is-phentermine-the-same-a-sibutramine/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:44:58 +0000 http://www.dietcomment.com/?p=558 No, Sibutramine is the generic or chemical name of meridia. Sibutramine is also known as sibutramide hydrochloride monohydrate is a medication used in the treatment for overweight. Sibutramine is classified as a Schedule IV controlled substance in the United States. Sibutramine also known in usa as Meridia and in europe as brand name Reductil (available in [...]]]> http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/is-phentermine-the-same-a-sibutramine/feed/ 0 http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/a-gimmick-free-weight-loss-pill-in-the-works/ http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/a-gimmick-free-weight-loss-pill-in-the-works/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:48:48 +0000 http://www.dietcomment.com/?p=563 A Universite de Montreal research team is developing a pill composed of leptin, the protein that tells our brain to stop eating. ‘Mice deprived of leptin will not stop eating. They become so big they have trouble moving around,’ says Moise Bendayan, a pathology professor at the Universite de Montreal Faculty of Medicine who has [...]]]> http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/02/a-gimmick-free-weight-loss-pill-in-the-works/feed/ 0 http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/the-fda-issues-warning-about-the-%e2%80%9cmeridia-diet-pill%e2%80%9d/ http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/the-fda-issues-warning-about-the-%e2%80%9cmeridia-diet-pill%e2%80%9d/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:51:35 +0000 http://www.dietcomment.com/?p=449 Source : http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9623738 Abbott Laboratories on Thursday stopped marketing a weight loss pill in Europe after regulators there said the drug increases the risk of heart attack and stroke when used by heart disease patients. The European Medicines Agency advised doctors and pharmacists to stop using sibutramine, saying “the risks of these medicines are greater than their [...]]]> http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/the-fda-issues-warning-about-the-%e2%80%9cmeridia-diet-pill%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/three-scientifically-proven-methods-to-reduce-stretchmark/ http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/three-scientifically-proven-methods-to-reduce-stretchmark/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:03:25 +0000 http://www.dietcomment.com/?p=370 What is Stretchmarks and what caused it? Stretch mark or striae , is a form of skin scarring appearing normally as parallel white lines. They are caused by tearing of the dermal layer. There are many creams and surgical methods that claim it can “cure” Stretchmark but the truth is there is really no way you can actually [...]]]> http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/three-scientifically-proven-methods-to-reduce-stretchmark/feed/ 0 http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/fake-forms-of-glaxo-diet-drug-can-be-dangerous-fda/ http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/fake-forms-of-glaxo-diet-drug-can-be-dangerous-fda/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:54:45 +0000 http://www.dietcomment.com/?p=453 Source : http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60N00P20100124 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fake versions of GlaxoSmithKline’s over-the-counter diet pill were contaminated with dangerously high levels of a prescription weight loss ingredient, U.S. officials warned on Saturday. Lab tests showed counterfeit versions of Glaxo’s pill Alli contained high levels of sibutramine, Food and Drug Administration officials said. Sibutramine is the active ingredient in Abbott Laboratories [...]]]> http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/fake-forms-of-glaxo-diet-drug-can-be-dangerous-fda/feed/ 0 http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/call-to-ban-diet-drug/ http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/call-to-ban-diet-drug/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:45:55 +0000 http://www.dietcomment.com/?p=401 The European Medicines Agency advised doctors to stop prescribing medicines containing sibutramine, which are sold under the names Reductil, Reduxade and Zelium in Europe. — ST FILE PHOTO Source : http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_480719.html WASHINGTON – EUROPEAN authorities urged a halt on Thursday to sales of a diet pill made by Abbott Laboratories Inc after concluding heart-related risks were too [...]]]> http://www.dietcomment.com/2010/01/call-to-ban-diet-drug/feed/ 0