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Lowering appetite is a crucial thing when it comes to weight loss. Natural methods like physical exercises would be the best way to fight obesity, yet sometimes it is not enough. The most important thing is to stop an obese to take more and more amount of food. Therefore, medicine created appetite suppressants.There are three major appetite suppressants approved by FDA: Meridia, Xenical and Phentermine. However, due to the fact that the first two are expensive, Phentermine is the most commonly drug prescribed to treat obesity.

Phentermine first received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1959 as an appetite suppressant for the short-term management of obesity.

Phentermine resin became available in the United States in 1959 and Phentermine Hydrochloride in the early 1970s.

In the US, the drug is currently sold under brand names Ionamin® (Medeva Pharmaceuticals) and Adipex-P® (Gate Pharmaceuticals), or simply as a generic medication known as ‘phentermine’.

Previously, it was sold under the name Fastin® (formerly produced by King Pharmaceuticals for SmithKline Beecham). In December 1998, SK-Beecham withdrew Fastin from the market.

Phentermine is an older drug. There are no doubts it is capable of producing a desired effect. Therefore, no new effectiveness trials have been conducted. The one notable exception, are several trials on the combination of Phentermine and Fenfluramine in the early and mid 1990s.

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