From: Steve Harris <sbharris@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Lipitor & Xenical = eat anything you want?
Date: 28 Jan 2005 16:02:35 -0800
Message-ID: <1106956494.697697.9320@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Your premises are wrong. Xenical inhibits some fraction of fat
absorption, but if you eat a great deal of fat, you'll still absorb
lots and have lots go into your colon. So if whatever your heart
desires includes lots of fat, you'll be spending most of your time on
the toilet, and when you get off, you'll still have gained weight.

From: Steve Harris <sbharris@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Lipitor & Xenical = eat anything you want?
Date: 28 Jan 2005 17:37:29 -0800
Message-ID: <1106962649.303559.105250@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

Any fat which escapes being absorbed will go the colon, where it will
cause distressing symptoms of gas, diarrhea, etc. So it's going to be
impossible to make a drug which is better than Xenical without making
one that has more side effects too.

If you ignore the side effects, yes, these drugs act a bit like
intestinal bypass. Some of your food calories passes through without
being absorbed (you ordinarly get more than 90% of food calories-- your
body is very efficient digestively), and heath-wise this is no
different than scraping half your dinner into the toilet directly. In
theory, it should work as well. But you don't get to taste it if you do
the toilet treatment directly, you say. Well, there's still the old
vomitorium after the feast. Of course, your teeth suffer.

SBH