Weight Reduction Problems

Weight Reduction Problems 
Dear Doctor,
I'm a favourite and admirer of your column in the Sun on Thursday.However, can you please offer answers to these questions of mine:* Does Cold water add to one’s body weight and fatness?* How can one necessary shed weight if it has been a family identity/heritage?* Does beer, soft drink and junk food adds to fatness?* Apart from body exercise, what other ways can one use in reducing fatness?* What drug(s) can one use to combat this, if any? With little or no side effects?
Thank you,
Franklyn Nagogo, Katsina-Ala

Dear Franklyn,
Cold water does not cause weight gain. Just forget the notion—there’s absolutely no physiological or medical connection between taking or bathing with cold water and getting fat. No way.Just forget it.To loose weight follow the pieces of advice: Let's mention seven briefly 1. Exercise 2. Starvation 3.Dieting 4.Obesity Surgery--the most effective of the lot because it takes care of the real reason for obesity which is over-eating by cutting off a good portion of the patient's stomach so that even after the intervention(surgery) they do not go back to their overeating 5.Slimming teas, herbs and other alternative methods 6. Amphetamines which are medicinal agents to suppress appetite (beware--they can cause addiction) 7. A new anti-obesity drug by a leading Pharmaceutical company that's really effective, too. The drug is a prescription drug so I will not be able to give you the name but I’m sure you can ask at a pharmacist’s.You must also understand that there are two major things that control a person’s weight. These are Nature and Nurture. Family inheritance, constitution, body build and one’s God-given endowment which we sum up as Nature takes a whopping 80 per cent of the final results.The things I mention above can help with Nurture—just about 20 per cent. The approach of obesity surgery above is to combine an attack on both Nature (the craving some people have for food which is natural to them) and Nurture (helps reduce food intake –"starvation" of sorts.This surgery is available in Nigeria and can work wonders for you if you require it.However, because surgery is not so attractive an option, alternatives in herbs, teas, vitamins are available that will do a perfect job without starving you. There's a combination of a natural oil, a fruit and a vegetable very accessible here in this country that will cure obesity without any stress.Just call the help-lines. Yes, beer, soft-drinks and junk foods are not good for your weight.
Cheers