Written by Stuart Stevens | Friday, 27 April 2007
At the obesity conference that is presently going on in the capital of Hungary, Budapest, research has been presented regarding the effectiveness of the weight loss medication Reductil. According to researchers, Reductil lowers the amount of food that you eat by slowing the rate in which you eat but without lengthening your meal times.

The research involved studying the appetites of 32 women suffering from obesity who were given the Reductil drug over at one week period. The research was conducted according to international standards and involved a double blind and placebo-controlled format. The research showed that sibutramine [the active ingredient in Reductil] could reduce the intake of food by 16.6 percent with a 10mg dose and by 22.3 percent with a 15 mg dose.
This research was interesting because it shows how people react to food when using Reductil and showed that they did not eat faster for a shorter time but that they ate more slowly for the same amount of time meaning that overall they ate less. The fact that the drug makes people eat slowly is good as it can set good behaviour patterns for in the future when the drug is not administered anymore.
For those people trying to lose weight a good bit of advice would be to always eat as slowly as possible as you are less likely to over eat if you do this. Your stomach takes between ten and fifteen minutes to send signals to your brain to stop eating and that is why people who eat very quickly often eat too much.
Reductil that is made by the drug company Abbott Laboratories is a very effective weight loss medication that has helped thousands of obese people shed weight. For this recent research the Reductil used was supplied free of charge by Abbott Laboratories as they are keen to study any new research on their weights loss medication that can be put to future good use.