Nightmare is the word to describe the pharmaceutical industry’s latest foray into weight-loss drugs. People who are seduced into using them are setting themselves up for future misery. These drugs promise success and deliver pain and breakdown, if not immediately, then in the not-so-distant future. The side effects are actually features, and they will be hard to calm the longer the drugs are taken.

Weight control is not solved by magical pills. Weight control is achieved by moderation.