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Recently, it has been found that Vitamin D is important for attaining overall health. Low levels of Vitamin D can cause cancer, diabetes and heart diseases.
If you are obese, then you are more likely to have these chronic diseases. To avoid this, you must focus on weight loss and simultaneously, increase the levels of Vitamin D.

It has been found that weight loss and Vitamin D levels have some kind of bond together. It is important to determine whether weight loss helps to change the Vitamin D levels. The study was conducted on 439 women to evaluate the effect of weight loss on Vitamin D. Those who lost 10 to 20 pounds that is 5-10 percent of their body weight had a small increase in the levels of Vitamin D.

A star-drug, Prozac, and 2 other anti depressives, are as efficient as a candy, functioning based on autosuggestion, clinical studies reveal. One of the largest pharmaceutical businesses in the world is shook by a huge scandal based on some studies made in UK. Researchers concluded that Prozac is a placebo drug, containing no medicine. Only in case of severe depressions did it prove to be a real help for patients.

Also, it seems that the studies having a negative finality, proving the drug's inefficiency, have been kept secret and have never been published. There are doctors who believe that any pill has a placebo effect. In the psychiatry field, more than in others, this is very important, because it is about subjective feelings of each patient. Still, if studies turn out to be true, faith in Prozac decreases, and so does the therapy benefits.

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It is hard though for such a strong company to collapse. In 1993, Prozac was recommended as the 'pill of the year', and its spectacular sales were only exceeded by Viagra. It was said that 54 million people have been helped by Prozac.

The more common selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) side effects are quite well known but there are a few rare SSRIs side effects such as cardiovascular side effects. Fluoxetine overdoses can cause sinus tachycardia, myocardial infarction, junctional rhythms and trigeminy. Experts suggest electrocardiographic monitoring in patients with pre-existing heart problems who are taking SSRIs.

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Discontinuing SSRIs can produce withdrawal symptoms that are indistinguishable from the original illness. SSRIs side effects sometimes take the form of extra pyramidal side effects (EPS) and/or akathisia.

These SSRIs side effects manifestations in patients can depend on factors such as the presence of psychomotor disturbance, a previous history of drug induced akathisia and/or EPS, concurrent antidopaminergic and/or serotonergic therapy, recent monoamine oxidase inhibitor discontinuation, comorbid Parkinson's disease and possibly deficient cytochrome P450 isoenzyme status.