Letter
Orlistat over the counter
People should be free to spend their money as they wish
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BMJ
2008;336:7.2
- Diet
- Health education
- Health promotion
- Nutrition and metabolism
- Obesity (nutrition)
- Obesity (public health)
- Public health
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- Caroline Mozley, head
- 1North Yorks R&D Alliance, York Hospital, York YO31 8HE
- caroline.mozley{at}york.nhs.uk
Williams’s analysis “at first glance” is correct—orlistat works and is safe, and people should be free to spend their money as they wish.1 His subsequent caveats have no merit.
It is true that that users may see less benefit than the hoped for loss of 10% of their weight, that they may abandon the …
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