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Diet pills or anti-obesity pills are the drugs that are used to control and reduce obesity or weight of a person. Diet pills have a role to play when exercise and diet control are ineffective. In fact, these pills have major side effects and so they are prescribed where there is some expectation about the outcome.

The first known usage of diet pills or controlling obesity has been dated to second century AD by Soranus of Ephesus, a Greek physician. Today, there are various ways in which the diet pills can be used to work with the human body like by regulating or varying the appetite or by changing the metabolism and by altering the absorption power for the nutrients by the human body.

There are various drugs that can be used for controlling obesity. Some of Diet pills that work competently are:

Rimonabant: It is a recently developed drug and it is responsible for the reduction of appetite.
Pramlintide: It is an artificial chemical of the hormone Amylin (secreted by pancreas whenever one eats something).

Sibutramine: This drug is used to suppress the appetite.

ECA stack is a short form for Ephedrine, Caffeine and Aspirin and is used as a stimulant and is also used for weight loss.
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