| For those of you who have tried, unsuccessfully, to | | | | inhibiting the absorption of fats so that fewer calories |
| lose weight, and believe that diet pills might be the | | | | find their way into your body.So, there are three |
| perfect solution, consider this! If there were such a | | | | main ways in which diet pills bring about a negative |
| thing as a magic pill to do it all for you, why are there | | | | calorie intake.1. They suppress your appetite so that |
| so many people who are still carrying excess weight | | | | you consume less calories. |
| and struggling to lose it?The answer to losing weight | | | | 2. They boost your metabolism to help you to burn |
| is startlingly simple. Weight can only be lost by | | | | more calories. |
| decreasing your intake of calories whilst ideally, at the | | | | 3. They prevent the absorption of fats (and also |
| same time, increasing the number of calories you | | | | nutrients too) so that fewer calories are retained by |
| burn off. You have to eat less than your body uses | | | | the body.What about the side effects? First, you |
| up in energy, over a period of time. Diet pills are | | | | have to be able to cope with the pressure that the |
| designed to artificially induce this very scenario in one | | | | pills put on your body so if you already have high |
| or more of several different ways. However, a word | | | | blood pressure or heart problems for example, then |
| of caution, not only can they cause some very | | | | diet pills can be exceptionally risky as they can |
| unpleasant side effects, and can in some cases pose | | | | increase your blood pressure and your heart rate. |
| a serious threat to your health, there is little or no | | | | Other side effects that can be produced by diet pills |
| evidence to suggest that they produce any lasting | | | | include, but are not restricted to, risk of addiction, |
| results whatsoever. Most people who do experience | | | | dry mouth, nausea, digestive problems (constipation |
| some weight loss whilst taking diet pills, simply put it | | | | and/or diarrhoea), headache, dizziness, insomnia, |
| all straight back on again afterwards, as can be borne | | | | drowsiness, nervousness, blurred vision, confusion, |
| out by the number of people who have tried them | | | | agitation, breathlessness, excessive flatulence, |
| and yet who are still overweight.The following are a | | | | stomach cramps and vomiting. They can also interact |
| few of the more common diet pills available, either | | | | with some other medications you might be taking to |
| over the counter or on prescription, and a brief | | | | either increase or counteract their |
| description of what they are trying to do.Adipex, | | | | effectiveness.When you consider the associated |
| Bontril, Ionamin or Phentermine, all work by | | | | health risks of diet pills and that they are simply |
| suppressing your appetite so that your brain tricks | | | | trying to mimic artificially what you are perfectly |
| your body into thinking that it is full. This makes you | | | | capable of doing quite naturally yourself, then you |
| eat less so reduces the number of calories you | | | | must surely wonder if there is any need for them at |
| consume. Didrex (benzphetamine hydrochloride) | | | | all. If you want to lose weight, then wouldn't it make |
| stimulates your nervous system so that you burn | | | | more sense to go for the safer and healthier option |
| more calories; it also suppresses your appetite. | | | | of eating a good diet and reducing the number of |
| Phendimetrazine and Tenuate work in a similar way | | | | calories you consume? To speed up the process you |
| to amphetamines (speed) so basically they boost | | | | can combine this with an increase in your activity |
| your metabolism to help to increase the amount of | | | | level by adopting a simple exercise programme, even |
| calories you burn up whilst at the same time, | | | | walking for 30 minutes a day will make a difference. |
| decreasing your appetite. Reductil or Sibutramine | | | | The weight will come off over time and you will feel |
| work by limiting the reuptake of seratonin and | | | | healthier and more alive, have more energy, and |
| noradrenaline in the brain. This will have the effect of | | | | what's more, there are no risks |
| making you feel good so you are less likely to | | | | whatsoever.Copyright 2006 David McEvoyThe |
| comfort eat, and makes you feel full earlier than you | | | | Author Dave McEvoy is an award winning personal |
| normally would. Xenical doesn't suppress your | | | | trainer who uses lifestyle changes to help his clients |
| appetite or help you burn more calories; it works by | | | | achieve their weight loss goals. |