Apertura. Revista de innovación educativa‏

Lehto Vanness

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For years, physicians have sought each dieter's dream of weight loss: a pill that may peel off the pounds with no damaging results. Their quest is an acknowledgment that losing weight and keeping it off is not just a matter of willpower, instead of resisting the siren call of this ice cream in the refrigerator. New research has shown that weight gain changes the brain and body. And even if we starve ourselves sparse, we frequently can not undo those adjustments. So we just slowly pack the pounds back because our brains believe we need them.

Weight-loss pills can help. So why don't more people use them?