The aims of this report are to explore the effects of taking those weight loss medicines.

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Research Report: The effect of taking medicine to lose weight in Hong Kong

“The effect of taking medicine to lose weight in Hong Kong”

A. Introduction

  1. 1. Abstract

The aims of this report are to explore the effects of taking those weight loss medicines. Why Hong Kong peoples are still willing to spend a great amount of money on weight loss medicine? What do they acknowledge on the medicine? What factors are attributable to the trend of weight loss? What are the medicine’s common ingredients are?

Besides, we have done a survey in November to collect the attitudes of HKU SPACE Community College students on this issue. We conducted this survey from 25 female and 25 male.  In the following sections, we are going to interpret the results we got from the survey and give out the recommendations that follow.

2. Methodology

We have interviewed 50 students (25 are male and 25 are female). The reason why we distribute the questionnaire to males and females equally because we want to find out the whether there are any difference in weight losing between two opposite sex. All of the students doing this survey are over 18 years old and studying Associate Degree Year II.

Furthermore, we would like to compare the result of other public survey such as the “Choice Magazine” in order to know the real situation appears in Hong Kong. The weight loss products leaflet or booklet has been found as well. By investigating the effects of the ingredients brought about, different media influences, common ingredients that contained in the medicines have been interpreted. 

All the information we found has largely assisted us in doing research on the effect of taking weight loss medicine.

3. Recommendations

        According to Mr. Kong Chin Hong, who is the member of The pharmaceutical society of Hong Kong. He said that people has to do more exercise so as to keep healthy and change the wrong eating habit instead of taking those weight loss medicine.        

        As for Professor Chung Ming Leuugm (CUHK faculty of pharmacy), he states that it is unwise to use it for long time as it may affect people’s life style. Some of the pills can cause hepatitis since many slimming pills don’t meet the standard of labeling. The producers used the unclear labeling may mislead people.

Consumer Council urges the public to eat higher fiber food to keep healthy and consultation to specialists is needed for overweight        people as different people has different physical situation. The safest way is to consult their family doctor.                

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B. Discussion

1. The different media influence on taking medicines to loss weight:

a) Television

TV is the direct channels to transfer the message to the people that are the effective way to affect the customer. The medicine’s producers like to use this kind of channel to promote their slimming pills. Customer will be attracted by these advertisements due to the company always shows the positive sides of their product. It easily causes the misconception of taking medicines to loss weight.

b) Pop star:

Nowadays, many medicines producer always ...

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