June 22, 2007
Alli – GSK New Shit Inducing Drug
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GSK Have a new “wonder drug” called Alli!
The basic Idea is to Shit yourself Thin!
GSK have a habit of making drugs which make you crap yourself and sometimes even kill yourself!
Check out the other shitty drugs made by GSK on the Blogroll on the right (or bottom of page)…
Avandia http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2007/06/18/daily27.html
Myodil
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All 3 drugs combined have killed, maimed or harmed many hundreds of thousands of people!
Is alli safe?…
We’ll have to wait and see…
In the meantime…
Happy Shitting! ….
Here’s what one healthcare practitioner wrote by way of caution for those who might be tempted to take Alli, as well as for the rest of us:
HOWEVER, and this is VERY important…you will LEAK orange foul-smelling oil from your tushy if you eat fatty foods! It will not clean with toilet paper, it will stain the toilet bowl until scrubbed with bleach, and it will leak THROUGH your pants uncontrollably, also staining your clothes (it is VERY hard to get out, even with bleach). This will happen only once to convince you to decrease your fat intake..lol. No fast food on this medicine, no greasy foods, no pizza especially. I don’t know why they don’t warn people about this. I am an ARNP who prescribed it to many patients, but I gave them the warning to be careful. Carry baby wipes, and an extra set of pants!! At least until you know how it will affect you. Sorry, but somebody needs to warn the public. I will be afraid to sit on a cloth seat (think theater) anywhere in public when this comes out! The leaking stain is 99% permanent (smell too!). Well good luck all dieters..and don’t say I didn’t warn you, lol.
According to Dr. Susan Norris, M.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, despite unimpressive weight losses, “gastrointestinal adverse effects (explosive diarrhea, fecal incontinence, abdominal cramping, anal leakage and oily discharge) were common.” Smelly, embarrassing accidents aren’t the main concerns about this drug among medical professionals, however. As we’ve reviewed, the clinical evidence for this, like all the popular diet drugs, is short-term and shows modest effectiveness and high drop-out rates. More importantly, it offers no clinical support for long-term benefits for actual health outcomes, such as cardiovascular disease or deaths. No diet pill to date has been able to demonstrate that.
While the public is focused on the weight loss, such as it is, the significance of its primary side effect is underappreciated. It reduces the absorption of fats — which are critical for health — and also fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) and beta-carotene. Twelve percent of Xenical users become vitamin D deficient within 2 years, and vitamin E and beta-carotene deficiencies have been documented in 6 percent of those taking it, according to the company’s literature. If millions of Americans begin taking this pill, the numbers of those with vitamin deficiencies are expected to grow.
Young people still growing, pregnant women, the elderly, and those with gastrointestinal and absorption problems are of special concern. Dietary guidelines, for example, recommend teenage boys get 100 grams of fat a day and girls around 73 grams, significantly more than is possible on Alli. While it’s supposed to be for adults, many healthcare professionals are concerned that the readily-available OTC pills will be abused by teens and eating disorder-prone young people who already don’t hesitate to resort to laxatives.
And while vitamin supplements are recommended by GlaxoSmithKline, fat-soluble vitamin supplements are of limited value on low-fat diets. Vitamin A is important for growth, healthy bones and teeth, reproduction, vision, and healthy skin and mucous membranes. Vitamin D is critical for helping maintain bones and teeth, muscular strength, and more. Vitamin K is essential for normal blood clotting and bone health. Other concerns that have been raised about Alli include possible roles in kidney stones, hepatitis and precancerous changes in the colon.
Health, of course, is not the real reason many people will try any weight loss scheme, and the Alli campaign barely mentions health. It’s simple, however, to give consumers the perception of scientific support by letting health professionals do the marketing. Last month, GlaxoSmithKline announced their partnership with the American Dietetic Association, a fellow member of the American Obesity Association, the lobbying organization for obesity-related interests. According to the ADA press release, it’s part of their sponsorship program that provides corporate sponsors a national platform through the ADA, which has “prominent access to key influencers, thought leaders and decision makers in the food and nutrition marketplace.”
Mr. Burton was cited, saying that they would be working towards their common goals “through these public and professional awareness campaigns.” So they now have the 67,000 registered dietitian members helping to market Alli’s “healthy eating” weight loss plan. The ADA, if you’re unfamiliar with this group, is the country’s largest trade and lobbying organization for nutrition professionals and says it is committed to five issues: “obesity, especially childhood obesity; healthy aging; creating a safe sustainable food supply; nutrigenics and nutrigenomics; and integrative medicine, including supplements and alternative medicine.”
GlaxoSmithKline adopted a clever marketing tactic: “honesty.” At the New York City press event, Mr. Burton said: “Alli breaks through the clutter with straight talk, an honest voice, saying that losing weight is hard work.” The company says it doesn’t want people to have “ridiculously high” hopes and are setting themselves apart from fad diets by making it part of a “healthy lifestyle.” According to their website “You don’t just try Alli — you commit to it.” One can almost imagine the Boardroom meetings scheming how to get around the facts of its less than stellar effectiveness. P.T. Barnum was no doubt heavily called upon.
As we’ve looked at here, the Federal Trade Commission recently released a report on deceptive weight loss advertising, which identified seven bogus weight-loss claims. Products claiming to cause any substantial weight loss by blocking the absorption of fat or calories was top on their list of fraudulent claims. They said the biological facts do not support even the possibility of fat-blockers doing anything but contributing to “really modest” caloric loss. In fact, fat blocking is such a scam, the FTC and the Competition Bureau of Canada used it in their teaser site about bogus weight loss claims — called FatFoe — to help consumers spot fake diet products that “almost always signal a diet rip off.”
But GlaxoSmithKline has ingeniously planned ahead. By telling consumers up front that “it won’t work unless they do,” no one will be able to blame the pill when it fails — it will be the dieters’ fault for failing to work hard enough and follow a “healthy lifestyle.”
© 2007 Sandy Szwarc
posted by Sandy at 5/25/2007
Alli – Do Less , Take More , Shit Longer
Diet Drug Alli Linked to Colon Cancer
The nonprofit group, Public Citizen says Alli, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, has been shown in studies to cause pre-cancerous lesions in the colons of mice. And, because there are no long-term studies of the drug’s effect on humans, the group believes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should not have approved the drug for nonprescription use.
Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, said, while it is not known whether these pre-cancerous lesions will lead to colon cancer, he and other cancer experts do not believe use of the weight-loss drug is a risk worth taking.
First of all, the drug doesn’t work unless you have a certain amount of fat in your diet,” he said. “Most people that are on low-fat diets are eating a lot of carbohydrates. Well, Alli doesn’t block carbohydrates. On the other-hand, if you are eating a lot of fat in your diet, you’re going to end up saying to yourself, ‘I thought I was already toilet trained’ because 25 percent of the people use this drug get oily spotting.”
Anderson acknowledged that a weight loss of two to four pounds a month “isn’t dramatic,” but said steady weight loss can have major health benefits. “For example, the reduction in LDL-cholesterol, the bad-guy cholesterol, of 10 percent can reduce risk of heart attack by 20 percent,” he added.
But Wolfe disagreed and said the overweight people would do better to follow a healthy diet and exercising.
“The bottom line is that we have a public despearate for quick fixes in weight loss,” said Wolfe. “But there is no magic pill to fix something that needs to be fixed slowly and chronically. If you go on a low-fat diet with Alli, you’re probably going to lose seven-and-a-half pounds a month, compared to 5 pounds without it. But the studies also show that once you stop the drug, you regain the weight.”
Meet “Alli the Alliphant”
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Check out these articles and youtube videos about alli ..
George Orwell coined the phrase “newspeak” in his 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). In the novel, it is described as being “the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year.” An example of Orwellian newspeak is the elimination of the word ‘bad’ and replacing it with “ungood.” That sort of thing. Eventually, by eliminating enough words you can make anything sound less “ungood” as exemplified by the slogan “War is Peace.”
Now another well-known British entity — GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) — has applied newspeak principles to direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising. It’s latest promotional video for the over-the-counter diet pill (”treatment”) Alli blatantly replaces all the nasty-sounding Alli side effect terminology — including “Oily Spotting,” “Flatus with Discharge,” “Fecal Urgency,” “Oily Evacuation,” and “Fecal Incontinence”
Feel free to post or comment about your real experiences of alli on this blog….
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Check out these articles and youtube videos about alli ..
GSK have replaced the terminology “side effects” with the term “treatment effects” in order to minimize the awareness of the side effects of alli…
Clever?…Devious?.. Or just deviously clever?… (either way this alli crap still stinks like bullshit)
http://fiddaman.blogspot.com/2007/06/man-takes-alli-and-suffers-side-effects.html
Feel free to post or comment about your real experiences of alli on this blog….
alli(TM) is a trademark of GlaxoSmithKline. All other trademarks acknowledged
