Body Fat Loss: Do You Really Want to Try Those Diet Pills?
The body fat loss market is huge and there are a variety of products both prescription and nonprescription (over the counter) available to those who would like to lose weight. A product hits the market, and it's soon found to cause serious complications from kidney problems to stroke, heart valves issues to high blood pressure to seizure, and even death. Many weight loss supplements are not regulated by any federal agency and may not have research or studies done on the long-term effect of the combination of herbs or other ingredients.
Unless you are in a doctor's care and are seriously overweight, you need to decide whether these risks are worth the effects of diet pills, weight-loss supplements, and herbal remedies.
Prescription diet pills are for the treatment of obesity, and contain stimulants similar to amphetamines and are only used when the effects of being overweight, outweigh the medication. In order to receive these types of prescription diet pills you must be under the care of a doctor who will carefully weigh the different aspects concerning your weight gain.
For those with less than 30 pounds extra weight it seems that over-the-counter medication weight loss might be the answer. While the FDA is involved with prescription and over-the-counter weight-loss medication, they have yet to categorize those over-the-counter as drugs, and for those who do not make claims of weight loss, there is no controlling federal agency.
Improvements in regulating over-the-counter body fat loss supplements and other herbal remedies have been made in the last decade. United State's Pharmacopoeia has been working towards a Comprehensive Dietary Supplement Verification Program but unless it has changed recently, is completely voluntary. It involves labeling and practice standards including manufacture, ingredients, strength, and impurities. The intent is to start the regulation of herbal and diet supplement production.
With all the recent publicity and lawsuits over herbal remedies, weight-loss supplement and diet pills, careful research into the products used in those pills or supplements needs to be done. Ephedra, phentermine, sibutramine and ephinedrine are common in weight loss herbal remedies, weight-loss supplements and diet pills and have also been known to have severe side effects. Read the label, research, and know what you're putting into your body and keep tabs on any side effects.
Herbal remedies, diet pills and weight-loss supplements are going to have an effect on your body. Careful research, talking with your doctor, and following instructions is an important aspect to any diet plan. Herbal remedies were used by early doctors and healers very carefully and only by knowledgeable people. Remember, these miracle body fat loss products and some prescription diet pills can have adverse reactions with any other medication, and even some food products, so before starting any diet plan talk to your doctor who will help you carefully weigh the risks of weight gain against the side effects of medication, herbals, or diet pills.
