Autumn of Appetite: Do Not Gain Weight, Effectively Lose Weight and Refuse Fat

As the weather turns cooler, people's appetite gradually increases. In addition to barbecue and mooncakes that are suitable for the Mid-Autumn Festival, a wide variety of hot pots are an indispensable highlight of the autumn and winter diet. However, if you do not pay attention to the control of calories and fat while enjoying delicious food, you may face obesity problems and your originally graceful and slim figure may become out of shape.

In addition to the barbecue and mooncakes that are suitable for the Mid-Autumn Festival, a wide variety of hot pots are the indispensable highlights of the autumn and winter diet.

Does enjoying delicious food necessarily mean taking risks like losing weight and becoming obese? In fact, it is not difficult to enjoy delicious food without any burden. In addition to self-control, adjusting your own living habits, and exercising moderately to increase the body's basal metabolism and prevent the accumulation of calories and fat, you can also choose to prevent the above concerns by taking medicines approved by the Ministry of Health and Welfare that help reduce the body's absorption of fat and contain the ingredient Orlistat to "assist weight loss."

Orlistat effectively assists in weight loss by removing fat and reducing absorption

As for why the ingredient Orlistat has the effect of "assisting weight loss"? This is because Orlistat is the only intestinal lipase inhibitor approved by the U.S. FDA for long-term use. It can break down and deactivate fat in the human body, effectively helping the gastrointestinal tract to break down fat, reduce fat absorption, and reduce the chance of fat accumulation.

Most importantly, according to clinical literature journals, people with obesity problems who take 60 mg of Orlistat for 24 consecutive weeks can effectively reduce visceral tissue body fat and truly eliminate "visceral body fat obesity." Human experiments have also shown that taking 60 mg of Orlistat every day can block about 25% of fat absorption.

Choose medicines approved by the Ministry of Health and Welfare that help reduce the body's absorption of fat and contain the ingredient Orlistat to "assist weight loss" to prevent the above concerns from occurring.

However, regarding the Orlistat ingredient, there are many rumors that taking weight loss products containing Orlistat may cause damage to the liver and kidneys. Is this true? In fact, in response to this rumor, the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) published a research report in 2010 on whether Orlistat is harmful to the human liver and kidneys. The researchers counted the number of people who took 60/mg and 120/mg Orlistat from 1999 to 2009, and found that among the 40 million users worldwide, there were only 13 reported cases of Orlistat suspected of affecting the human liver and kidneys.

Among the 13 reported cases, only one patient died due to liver failure and unsuccessful liver transplantation. However, the investigation found that the patient himself had congenital liver function problems, and his liver failure problem had little to do with the medication, and there was no causal relationship to prove that the Orlistat component would cause damage to the liver.

Taiwan clinical study: Assisting weight loss can improve liver inflammation indicators

In addition to the FDA's (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) statement, obesity specialist Dr. Hsiao Dun-ren said that Taiwan conducted a 120-person Orlistat clinical study in 2000. The study lasted 24 weeks, and 60 people in the experimental group who used the drug did not experience liver and kidney problems. Among those who successfully lost weight, their liver inflammation index GPT also improved.

The results of this study suggest that there is no concern that Orlistat will cause significant damage to the liver and kidneys when used in humans. However, because liver damage is a very serious problem, the FDA still recommends that warnings be placed on the packaging of related drugs containing Orlistat, warning people to seek medical attention as soon as possible if any abnormal symptoms occur.

Any medication has the potential to cause liver damage. If you experience symptoms of hepatitis such as jaundice and fatigue, you must seek medical attention immediately and get treatment as quickly as possible to clarify the problem and effectively resolve and improve it.

However, in response to this point, Xiao Dunren, who is also a hepatobiliary gastroenterologist, said that Orlistat mostly only acts in the gastrointestinal tract, and the amount absorbed through the intestinal mucosa is very small. If it really causes drug-induced liver damage, it should be due to idiosyncratic reasons.

However, Dr. Xiao Dunren also reminded everyone that any drug has the potential to cause liver damage. If hepatitis symptoms such as jaundice and fatigue occur, you must seek medical attention immediately and get treatment as quickly as possible to clarify the problem and effectively solve and improve it.

But in addition to successfully losing weight and slimming down through the help of medicines containing the "weight loss aid" Orlistat, you should still be reminded not to gain weight by eating too much in the fall, so as not to waste your efforts in the summer to eat less and exercise more to maintain a slim and graceful figure.