Many women see diet pills as the easy answer to a weight problem.
GPs do not approve of them, but private clinics have moved into this lucrative market, to the dismay of many in the medical profession. Susan Donald, of BBC Television's Frontline Scotland, investigates. For people desperate to lose weight there's always one major problem - how to eat less. Diet pills seem the easy solution, a quick fix, pop a pill and keep the hunger pangs at bay. But you are unlikely to be prescribed them by your family doctor.