| Over the past few decades, the big pharmaceutical | | | | useless. A very few, select diet pills, have some value |
| companies have marketed over 1000 diet pills - Celopin | | | | in assisting with weight loss. They can be useful - but |
| Diet Pill is only one of their latest offerings. And despite | | | | only if you know how to use them correctly, and are |
| their claims of rapid, easy weight loss, the fact is that a | | | | fully aware of their problems: |
| large majority of diet pills DO NOT WORK AT ALL. | | | | 1) ALL diet pills are potent drugs. They all have side |
| The first diet pills go all the way back to the 1950s, | | | | effects - some of which are potentially very |
| when amphetamines were offered as a way to | | | | dangerous. |
| suppress your appetite/boost your metabolism. | | | | 2) The more frequent side effects of diet pills include: |
| Unfortunately, amphetamines (also known as "speed") | | | | heart complications, high blood pressure, dizziness, |
| are highly addictive, and caused so many serious side | | | | nervousness, insomnia, dry mouth, and diarrhea or |
| effects that the drug companies were forced to take | | | | constipation. |
| them off the market. | | | | 3) Like many other drugs, diet pills can be addictive. |
| There then followed a long line of diet-pill drugs, which | | | | People have been known to become quite dependent |
| came and went as the continual discovery of side | | | | on these pills, even long after they have stopped their |
| effects would force a new pill off the market within a | | | | dieting. |
| few years. The most infamous case of this, were the | | | | 4) Many "successful" diet pill claims, are by people who |
| "fen-phen" diet pills. The FDA approved this | | | | also used a diet plan and exercised regularly during this |
| combination of fenfluramine and phentermine, assuring | | | | period. Thus, there's no way to know for certain, |
| all that it was completely safe. Mere MONTHS later, | | | | whether they would have lost the same amount of |
| the FDA had to issue a humiliating reversal of its | | | | weight WITHOUT using the diet pill. |
| decision - the "fen-phen" combination produced some | | | | 5) Recently, Big Pharma has tried a different approach: |
| of the worst side effects ever seen in any diet pill | | | | Offering watered-down versions of their prescription |
| offered! | | | | diet pills, as "over-the-counter" diet pills. Of course, |
| But "Big Pharma" wasn't about to lose this "cash cow" | | | | being watered-down, they are even more useless |
| that easily. In order to regain the trust of the general | | | | than their original, stronger, prescription-required |
| public, they began moving towards the use of "natural | | | | versions. |
| ingredients" in their new diet pill offerings. Of course, | | | | Even worse, after taking all these risks and possibly |
| just because a chemical is produced by a plant, | | | | suffering through a list of side effects, ALL diet pills |
| doesn't mean it's any safer than one produced in the | | | | only work for a short time. Typically, your body will |
| laboratory. | | | | adapt to their weight-loss effects, and the pills will lose |
| The most notorious "natural" diet pill ingredient, was | | | | potency after a couple of months. |
| ephedra. Similar to caffeine (but more potent), it was | | | | But worst of all, is the "bounce". Many diet pill users |
| eventually found to be causing caffeine-like side | | | | report that after they went off the pills, they regained |
| effects - but much more serious. Heart palpitations, | | | | all the weight they lost while on the pills - plus more! (I |
| heart arrhythmias, other heart problems, allergic | | | | have personal experience with this: After trying |
| reactions, nervous system problems - quite a list | | | | several different diet pills, each time I finished my diet-pill |
| indeed! It too, was eventually banned in most of the | | | | regimen, I would eventually end up at a HIGHER |
| technologically-advanced, Western civilized nations. | | | | weight, than the weight I started at before using the |
| Are you seeing a pattern yet? | | | | diet pill! |
| All of this does not mean that diet pills are entirely | | | | |