[lbo-talk] re: grist for the culture angst mill

Jeffrey Fisher jfisher at igc.org
Fri Jun 11 14:18:17 PDT 2004


On Friday, June 11, 2004, at 03:25 PM, snit snat wrote:


> At 03:24 PM 6/11/2004, Carrol Cox wrote:
>> Considering the high sales of prozac, zoloft, paxil, & other SRIs,
>> that
>> must have _something_ to do with increased obesity. Weight gain,
>> sometimes extreme weight gain, is a very common side effect of those
>> drugs.
>>
>> Carrol
>
> I've heard this before, and about other drugs. Do they slow the
> metabolism?
>

one other thing: remember that prozac, the first ssri, only hit the market in 1988. that's not very long ago. iirc, paxil only arrived in 95 and hit the market in 1996 or so, but that's basically from memory.

j



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