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As rates of overweight and obesity continue to skyrocket, communities have been assailed by health messages from governments, nutritionists, scientists, and others anxiou

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

s to stem the serious illnesses that are a direct result of overweight and inactivity.

The problem now seems to be that these very messages have added to the burden of d

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

isease by increasing the amount of unhealthy eating, particularly eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. Death rates from these diseases are up to 60

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

times higher than those of the remaining population, outdoing the combined rates of all the cardio-vascular diseases, according to Doctor David Herzog, professor of psych

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

iatry at Harvard Eating Disorders Centre.

Researchers over the last decade have strongly linked the diet message to increased overweight and increased deaths from eating

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

disorders. Teenage deaths from anorexia have been strongly linked to dieting mothers.

Senior Research Scientist Dr Jonathan Mond, of James Cook University, has strongl

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

stated that “There are conspicuous links between eating-disordered behaviour and obesity” explaining that obese people were much more likely to develop eating disorders,

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

and people with eating disorders were much more likely to become obese.

Not only is there proof that dieting actually leads to obesity, but now we understand more preci

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

sely why the body reacts so badly to any diet program, even a healthy diet. World-renowned nutritionist Dr David L Watts claims that even thinking about depriving onesel

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

of preferred food has a negative effect on the metabolic rate. Real or imagined food deprivation actually creates food cravings so strong that the dieter must sooner or

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

later give in. The problem is that the metabolic rate has been compromised and the dieter now puts on more weight, faster.

The faster or more traumatically the weight

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

is lost, the quicker it returns, and the harder it becomes to shift it in the future. The Australian Department of Health reports that nearly 100% of people who diet pu

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

the weight back on within 3 years, but that the same proportion of people who lose weight through an exercise program replace the weight within just 12 months.

Christin

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

e Sutherland, founder of WeightChoice.com.au, says that the health messages to date are “all wrong”.

“It’s essential to good health and wellbeing that we reject the diet

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

message totally and uncategorically. Our whole focus must turn to the fun and pleasure involved in the preparation of healthy food, and the fun and pleasure involved in

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

sporting activities. Every diet does harm, and exercise programs fail.”

“If we keep getting people to focus on their bodies, giving them eating plans and exercise plans

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

and scaring them about health, all we’ll do is develop an unhealthy preoccupation or obsession with food, and we’ll continue to see frightening death rates associated wi

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

th dieting and eating disorders. The message we must send is that everyone deserves a good lifestyle, and we must teach people how to have fun in their lives again.”

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.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

know that when we properly eliminate food cravings and emotional reasons for eating, and teach people to recognise and build great lives, weight quickly normalises and g

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ood health and wellbeing returns. When people lose weight in this fashion, they lose it for good because there’s simply no way they could go back to the old way of life.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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