I doubt that I am alone in my, what seems like and endless struggle with my weight, but I have piled it on over the weeks leading upto Christmas. I am currently at 18 stone and 4 pounds which is 4 pounds heavier than when I started off a year ago. Not too great! But along the way I have learnt a lot about losing weight and various methods that do and don’t work.

I started off with the Golden Rules to Losing Weight with Paul Mckenna which did work but I found that I just didn’t stick to the eating consciously part which meant I was eating as much as I had been doing. I had always managed to lose weight on the Atkins Diet and I was back on it by March. I managed to lose some weight but was shocked when I went to the doctors for a cholesterol test and was told mine was much higher than it should be. So I decided that it was more important for me to try and have a healthy diet of lots of fruit and veg. This made me feel generally better and healthier.

One big health push was stopping smoking back at the end of June which is still going well. I have also learnt on the way a lot about diet pills and it is one thing that I am considering as my next option, so I may be trying out Acomplia some time in 2007… but for now I’m doing a few weeks of the Atkins.

Sanofi are still confident that Acomplia / Zimulti will get the approval that is needed and is in the meantime collecting data from European patienst currently taking Acomplia to pass on to the FDA. This information from patients who have been taking Acomplia since June in the UK will help identify what side effects are to be expected in the US. It seems that for some reason the FDA are very cautious of approving Acomplia / Zimulti which has not helped the share price on Sanofi-Aventis.

]]> http://www.diet-trials.co.uk/2006/10/13/will-acomplia-zimulti-get-approval-in-the-us/feed/ 0 http://www.diet-trials.co.uk/2006/10/11/acomplia-to-be-called-zimulti/ http://www.diet-trials.co.uk/2006/10/11/acomplia-to-be-called-zimulti/#comments Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:14:39 +0000 diettrials http://www.diet-trials.co.uk/2006/10/11/acomplia-to-be-called-zimulti/ Why do they have to do this….do they like to confuse us so that we are never sure what we are taking, or is it like giving plants and flowers in your garden really long latin names that no one can remember.

We have all got used to the word Acomplia, meaning weight loss drug that surpresses appetite. The magic ingredient of Acomplia is called Rimonabant which you may have heard of before.

You may also heard of Sanofi-Aventis who manufacture Acomplia / Rimonabant. This pharmaceutical company also manufacture along with many others wonder drugs, Ambien / Zolpidem which is a sleeping tablet.

When Acomplia finally gets released into the USA there are plans to rename Acomplia to Zimulti… why? What sort of name is Zimulti anyway? I really would like to meet the guy who has the job to make up names like Zimulti; not that Acomplia is any better a name!

Why do pharmaceutical companies do this? Is there a valid logical reason why a drug gets a different name in different countries? I know that we call them “chips” and in the USA they call them “fries” but it doesn’t mean we have to have 2 names for everything does it?

As the USA has an obesity problem worse than the UK it is clear why people are trying to buy it from the UK to send to the USA. There has been though a clamp down by the US Customs and if you are in the USA there is a risk that your shipment of Acomplia will get seized, as in the USA, Acomplia is still an unapproved drug. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still have to give Acomplia the green light before it can be prescribed in the USA.

It was released yesterday that Britain was the first country in the EU to be granted a license for Acomplia. Acomplia is meant to be able to reduce body weight by up to 10% and targets the parts of the body that control appetite, weight and energy use. It works by suppressing the appetite and therefore you reduce what you eat.

They are expecting that the drug will cost around £55 per month for the treatment and this could cost the NHS billions. At the moment Acomplia will only be available privately at first. Acomplia is manufactured by Sanofi Aventis and they believe that the cost of providing Acomplia to the obese population is far less than the cost the governments already have to spend on obesity.

The trials of Acomplia / Rimonabant have been very successful and a quarter of those tested lost over 10% of their body weight, and half of them lost more than 5%.

I could do with some Acomplia, not only to lose weight but it is also meant to help you give up smoking. Can you imaging the UK in 10 years time, all these non smoking, slim beings….marvellous.

The new drug has been undergoing testing and trials over the last few years. The tests with Acomplia against a placebo has shown that it is effective and does show sustained weight loss after two years of taking the drug. The overweight adults who took Acomplia had lost significantly more weight than those not taking Acomplia. The test also showed that it had increased the levels of HDL cholesterol which is good for you.

Acomplia or Rimonabant works by reducing the appetite, blocking certain receptors in the brain. Those that take Acomplia can expect to lose 10% of their body weight in a year. All sounds good to me. I know that dieting isn’t the way to go, and Paul McKenna is right in what he says about changing the way we look at food, but to me if I wasn’t hungry then I wouldn’t eat, or if my appetite was surpressed I may eat less. Plus if all I have to do is remember to take a tablet everyday, and I already have to to balance my thyroid level, then am I onto a winner?

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