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Psychological Reasons Why Diet Drug Works

September 11, 2009 by

Psychologists are set to reveal the results of a study into obese people’s behavioural responses to a prescription weight loss drug at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Health Psychology annual conference today, 11th September 2009. Amelia Hollywood and Jane Ogden from the University of Surrey investigated the behaviour of 572 individuals who had been prescribed the weight loss drug, orlistat (also known as Xenical).