The 4-in-1 diet jab: New wonder drug tackles cholesterol, obesity, diabetes and blood pressure

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A four-in-one diet drug that can help a woman drop two dress sizes in six months has been developed by scientists. 

The jab, which could be available in three years, also lowers blood pressure, raises 'good' cholesterol, and can prevent and even cure diabetes. 

If that's not enough, it also appears to have a 'feel-good' factor.

Miracle: The diet jab, which could be available in three years, also lowers blood pressure, raises 'good' cholesterol, and can prevent and even cure diabetes. (Posed by models)

Similar in structure to a gut hormone that helps regulate appetite, liraglutide tricks the brain into thinking we are full despite eating 20 per cent less food. 

Taken for six months, it helped men and women who have struggled with their weight for years shed a stone and a half on average, making it more than twice as good as anything already on the market. 

Free of the side-effects that have led some other diet 'wonder drugs' to be banned, it could also cut the need for gastric banding, stomach stapling and other expensive and potentially dangerous operations.

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