"The whole thing just feels gross to me. Have they said anything or is there any information on what happens after this three months?" she asks. "It's medical stolen valor," the reporter says of Wyas' PR campaign for women who need weight loss drugs. The company makes huge donations to anti-obesity organizations, but also invests in obesity, Inc., a little industry that wants to make money from it.
Fen-Phen & Redux were "the next miracle drugs" in the '90s, claiming to help people lose dramatic amounts of weight in just three months. But within a few short years, they'd been pulled from the market. They were just too effective! (Just kidding, they killed some people.)
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