FDA rejects diet pill

The government has turned thumbs down on a new diet drug. The action appears to eliminate hope for medication designed to fight obesity in the near future. The FDA says it's concerned about the drug's effect on the heart.



Slim Chance

  The FDA
   Has had its say
  But please don't think it smug;
  The pill won't rate
  For losing weight
  So it won't approve the drug.
 
  Though you want to cease
  Being so obese,
  Keep the horse before the cart;
  You over ate
  Now your overweight,
  But you need to guard your heart.

  Alack, alas,
  The drug won't pass,
  And that, it seems, is that;
  If you feel stress,
  Try eating less,
  Or live with being fat.

 
©  2011  Jim Gordon