People should be free to spend their money as they wish

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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 …