Aug 3, 2007

As a contributing blogger for the Huffington Post, John discusses the diet drug alli and the increasingly common pharmaceutical lifestyle it typifies

Excerpt:
Recently, a friend sent me an Amazon.com link to a book called The alli Diet Plan. Written by Dr. Caroline Apovian, director of the Nutrition and Weight Loss Management Center at Boston University Medical Center, the book is full of helpful recipes specifically designed to "maximize your results from Alli(tm), the only FDA-approved over-the-counter weight loss aid." The link was clearly meant for nothing more than a cheap laugh -- one that I had. But as the thin sarcasm faded, I found myself considering the book's more serious implications.

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