By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
CNN — Around the holidays, when many people are baking cookies for Santa, enjoying cocktail parties or having festive family feasts, some adults who use popular medications for diabetes or weight loss explore skipping doses for a week or two.
These medications can suppress appetite or sometimes cause uncomfortable side effects that some people might want to avoid during the holiday season. And according to some doctors, some of their patients have said they want to fully delight in their favorite foods or just save some money during a season of high spending.
“People are bound to wonder about doing this,” said Dr. Judith Korner, professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology at New York Presbyterian/ Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York.
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