Why We Don't Recommend Diet Pills

It is amazing how many people will go to great lengths (and expense) to be thin. This is actually a very noble and healthy pursuit, as the World Health Organization has reported that over 60% of all diseases are linked or caused by obesity. The problem is, people want a quick fix, and marketers are all to happy to sell you a piece of equipment that really doesn't work or a bottle of chemicals that can be dangerous to fix what is really an easy problem to cure.

And we the American people buy into it. Between the ages of 18 and 32, I would estimate I spent over $50,000 in diet pills, supplements, mass builders, and more just to try and have a good body. What I learned was, our bodies are created more intricately than the finest tuned race car in the world. If you give it the calories and nutrients it craves at the desired time, it will become a lean, very sleek machine.

My big issue with diet pills (or fad exercise equipment for that matter) is they are usually coupled with the disclaimer "Eat a well balanced diet", and that is the whole problem. The type of diet that makes the body run like that sleek race car cannot be canned, or put in a pill. The right meal plan is remarkably easy to do, and nothing works better, but it is all the hype of selling a magic bullet that creates the confusion in health and fitness. To be clear, one pill will not magically help you drop weight and keep it off. You may see quick weight loss results with some diet pills, but these results are usually due to losing water weight which can be hazardous to your health.

Many diet pills will dehydrate you, making you lose 10 lb of water weight very fast. You are still fat, but now you are in a weakened state, and injury or illness is much more likely. Or, some diet pills will speed up the metabolism (caffeine, ephedra, etc), which is also dangerous. And to be clear, even if your metabolism goes up, if you eat too many calories, or the wrong ratio of calories at the wrong time, you will still gain fat.

The Hype of Flashy Ads

Pick up a bottle of diet pills like Xenadrine, and you might be swayed by all of their claims: Clinical studies, Safe and Effective, Improves metabolism! When these types of items are displayed in a flashy or authoritative way, it is easy to be fooled. But like with any advertising claim, don’t be taken in by what you see on the surface. Steve Bechler, Major League baseball pitcher, took Xenadrine before a game, after he decided that he needed to drop some weight to have a better start to his season. He passed away of a heart attack. As shocking as it is, this healthy 23 year old man didn’t know the dangers of diet supplements and paid the highest price. Look again at any packaging and marketing for a diet pill. They may magically claim to seed up metabolism and help the pounds melt away, but what significant research backs up these claims? Is there a reputable organization, like the Food and Drug Administration, asserting that the claims are true?

How about Ephedra. It can be found everywhere, from weight loss aids to energy boosters. Metabolife, one of the best selling over-the-counter weight loss aids in the country, contains Ephedra. The supplement contains both Ephedra AND caffeine, which the manufacturers have claimed for years have no side effects when combined (and I know this is not true, just due to the impact of caffeine on the adrenal glands). Mind you, this is the company trying to market their product to millions of fat people, so you would think they would want to have their facts as straight as possible.

However, when staring in the face of criminal charges and a federal investigation, the president of Metabolife, David Brown finally coped to the fact that “between 1997 and September 2001 his company received roughly 13,000 reports of ‘certain health-related issues‘ linked to the supplement, among them heart attacks, strokes, seizures and death. A subsequent analysis added high blood pressure, palpitations, psychosis and other serious problems.” The FDA even estimates that Ephrdra accounts for 64% of all related side effects from herbal supplements, and that for every one of these recorded incidents, 100 go unreported.

Or Even Alli

Alli pills contain proactol, which is a clinically proven fat binder. It works by binding up to about 28% of your actual fat intake. This sounds great, however, most of your body fat comes from spiking insulin and storing ALL calories as fat (not just fat calories, but any calorie). So binding some of the fat lowers the amount of calories you store, but only slightly.

Deadly Side Effects of Diet Pills

Yes, over half the population needs to lose some fat. If you drop that fat you would feel better, have more energy, and look better to the opposite sex. And isn't that what it's really about? The fastest way to do this is by understanding how the body processes foods, and how to utilize your own natural fat burning hormones - not by creating a stress overload on your system by artificially increasing your metabolism. This stress is what can cause the heart attacks, hypertension, dizziness, etc. If you are fat, you are already at risk for these, and hundreds of more health issues. Diet pills are only going to add to the issue. If you do a little research, you can find out exactly what is in diet pills, and what the ingredients can do to harm, not improve, your health. Some quick facts on a component of Ephedra, ephedrine:

• In its synthetic form, ephedrine is used on hospital crash carts to help bring patients back to life.
• Its nickname is “the poor man’s speed” based on what it can do to the human nervous system.
• It can cause nervous jitters, a pounding heart and high blood pressure. Combined with the stimulating effects of caffeine, another popular component of diet pills, this creates a literally deadly partnership

Before you blame all the world’s evils on a pill like Metabolife, know that all diet pills contain some similar herb or laxative effect (designed to help shed water weight quickly). Most Americans are already in a malnourished and dehydrated state. Rapid water loss can also cause death.

Safe Alternatives to Diet Pills

It's pretty easy really. Learn what foods, in what combinations of calories, at what times start your own bodies natural fat loss hormones. The foods you eat made you fat, and they can make you thin again just as easy.

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