In America and the UK there are anti-drug programmes such as Narcinon, using a regime of exercise, saunas and vitamin B the church claims it has a 75% success rate.

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Bad diets and a lack of exercise are expected to almost double the prevalence of the disease by 2015, and drug companies are pushing potential treatments to market.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Belviq (lorcaserin hydrochloride), as an addition to a reduced-calorie diet and exercise, for chronic weight management.

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In the heyday of the East India Company, the single biggest cause of death of the company's employees was not mad dogs or scorpions, but the familiar drug of alcohol (aggravated by bad diet and lack of exercise).

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As her experiments controlled for both diet and exercise, she thinks fetal exposure to the drug must play a role in the fattening that was evident later in life.

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In August, Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), which had originally developed pagoclone and had licensed it to Indevus, decided not to exercise its option to develop the drug.

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