Is Your Medicine Making You Fat?

Gaining weight is an often over-looked side effect of many common medications. Do you know which ones and how? Surprisingly, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs did not make the list. These may surprise you:

1. Antihistamines ? they have been known to increase appetite.

2. Steroidal hormones ? these can cause fluid and salt retention as well as an increased appetite.

3. Certain antidepressants/psychiatric medications ? may cause increased appetite due to normalization in moods.

4. Diabetic medications ? stabilization of blood sugar causes you to retain most nutrients that were previously excreted.