Toronto Star: The catch: “It is a chronic therapy for a chronic condition,” Phillips said. “When you stop it, weight regain is common.”
More than half of the people who take the medication to lose weight quit within one year. “There are colleagues of mine who consider these drugs as ‘renting out weight loss’ — it doesn’t give you the long-term fix because people don’t tend to adhere to the medications long term,” Anand said…