Talk:Anorectic
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[edit] Ephedrine-containing products still available
As of Jan 2005, Americans can still buy OTC products that contain ephedrine, including many popular decongestants. Maybe the FDA only baned ephedrine in weight loss products. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.72.123.135 (talk) 06:41, 7 January 2005 (UTC)
- The wording is "dietary supplements" [1] . I've changed the article to reflect this. Reading between the lines of the FDA ephedra FAQ [2], it seems almost like they knew it would continue to be sold in other forms but didn't wish to draw attention to the fact.... Rkundalini 02:13, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Amphetamine in first world war
Was it really used? In this page: Amphetamine and also other pages, it says they didn't discovered the medical effects of amphetamine until the 20s-30s, which is after 1st world war ended. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.67.208.212 (talk) 00:38, 5 September 2006
[edit] What's the opposite of this?
I want to know personally (stimulate my appetite). Plus it would be a nice addition. ImpIn | (t - c) 08:11, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Redirect
Can someone please redirect these terms "anorexigenic" and "appetite suppressant" to this article?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.101.48.57 (talk) 17:08, 14 June 2008
Redirects have been at the following links for some time:.
Please ask again if that is not what you needed. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:40, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
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On January 18, 2008, the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (representing botanic gardens in 120 countries) stated that "400 medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, from over-collection and deforestation, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease."
This sentence was added on 27 October 08. It is not connected to the topic and does not add to the article. I am therefore moving it here. If it is placed back in the article, then it needs to be further worked on so that it does actually relate to the topic of the article.
I believe the author sees any plant-based medicines as inherently connected to all undiscovered plant-based remedies. This is a fallacy. This article is (or should be) about what we know of Anorectics. It should not be about idle speculation. We do have reason to believe that deforestation will endanger medicines that are yet to be discovered, but we have no reason to speculate about which types of medicines are available there. This belongs in a discussion about medicine in general, but it does not belong here. I could choose to speculate about the dozens of types of Anorectics that may be developed in a lab, but it would not belong in this article either. Unless an expert is willing to speculate as to how many Anorectics are yet to be discovered in those forests, then this doesn't belong here any more than my layman's speculation about laboratory progress.
Note that a botanist from those parts of the world speculation about how many undiscovered varieties of Apocynaceae there are local to them would be a legitimate bridge between the topics (reference please). I'm not saying that the topics cannot be connected, only that they haven't been. Any connection will be tenuous at best, but it can be done.
While I believe this sentence does not belong, I will note that the author seems legitimately interested in the topic. I am not accusing him of vandalism, merely of giving the above sentence insufficient thought.
--Gd2shoe (talk) 19:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Terminology
What is the technical difference between an appetite depressant and an appetite suppressant, referenced in this article? Can we explain it a bit better?
FT2 (Talk | email) 04:19, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Is water an anorectic?
A recently publicised randomised controlled trial suggests that drinking water may act to suppress appetite. If this is true, would it count as an anorectic? So far, I've added the information I've found about this study to Appetite, but I wonder if it falls within the scope of this article.--greenrd (talk) 15:52, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
