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Mais links interessantes (em inglês)

• Institutos Nacionais de Saúde: Escritório de Suplementos Dietéticos
• Rede de Informações de Controle de Peso: prescrição de medicamentos para o tratamento da obesidade
• HealthCentral.com: medicamentos de dieta
• MEDLINEplus: obesidade

Livros

• Behind the Enslavement Walls of a Diet Pill Addict, por Daisy Carr
• Diet Pill Drug Dangers, por Lawrence Clayton
• Diet Pills, por Deborah DeEugenio
• The Diet Pill Book: A Consumer's Guide to Prescription and Over-the-Counter Weight-Loss Pills and Supplements, por Deborah Mitchell, et al.

Fontes

• Connolly, Heidi M., Ph.D., et al. Valvular Heart Disease Associated with Fenfluramine-Phentermine, July 8, 1997.
• Crabtree, Penni. "Ephedra Found to Change Heart Rhythm". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 14, 2004.
• Diet Pills and Weight Loss
• Ephedra, MayoClinic.com
• FDA Announces Withdrawal of Fenfluramine and Dexfenfluramine, Press Release, September 15, 1997.
• Kolata, Gina. Obesity Drug Stirs Hope, Hype. The Barre Montpelier Times Argus, December 5, 2004.
• National Center for Health Statistics, Overweight Prevalence 1999-2002.
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Prescription Medications for the Treatment of Obesity. NIH Publication No. 04-4191. November 2004.
• Peck, Peggy. "Experimental Diet Drug has Staying Power". WebMD Medical News, November 9, 2004.
• Prescription Diet and Weight Loss Pills
• Raloff, Janet. Diet Pills: It's Still Buyer Beware, Science News Online, August 10, 2002.
• Stein, Rob. "Seeking a Slim Victory, Drugmakers Press FDA: Pipeline is Bulging with Diet Pills". The Washington Post, September 17, 2004.
• Weight-loss Drug Fattens Heart Risks, ConsumerReports.org, December 2003.