After $60 million spent on lobbying, the U.S Food and Drug Administration -- which had a 13-year history of rejecting new diet drugs -- has approved five new diet products with potentially serious side effects, including suicidal thoughts and increased cancer risk. In the video above, John Fauber, a reporter who covered the issue last month for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, explains to HuffPost Live why the FDA felt the need to approve the new products and what it means for consumers. "As everybody knows it's really difficult to lose weight and keep it off, so there's been a hope or expectation that medicine will come up with something," he said.