1. Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess baggage you carry, the shorter your trip.

2. "The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live."
—Socrates

3. If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

    The Diet Secrets Article   

I hope you know that there are potential problems associated with taking many of the diet pills that are on the market today. Before you try any of these products, I would recommend that you research the potential problems that come with a weight loss pill.

Do Diet Pills Actually Work?

The over-the-counter weight loss pill manufacturers often claim their products can give you miraculous weight loss — as in dropping up to 30 pounds in only 30 days — and of course they tout that this is all without any dieting or exercise on your part. They claim you can eat anything you want and still lose weight. But keep in mind that whenever a claim sounds too good to be true, it usually isn't true.

Some of the pills, especially those that actually require a prescription (like Meridia and Xenical), have actually tested in clinical studies to result in a few pounds of weight loss. But most of the ads that you will find on the Web or on television are touting unregulated products whose results are both untested and unproven.

If you can find the right doctor to prescribe an effective weight loss drug for you, it may be able to trim anywhere from 5 to 22 pounds over a six month period, or even as much as 10 percent of your body weight.

But even prescription diet pills that are effective can only be used over a short time frame — usually only six months or less. After that time, their effectiveness will drop off dramatically. Your body will eventually develop a tolerance to any such weight loss drug, and your weight loss will plateau. After you've reach the plateau, if you haven't changed your eating habits to a more healthy plan, and/or begun a solid exercise plan, your weight will very likely just come right back.

What Are the Side Effects of Diet Pills?

Of course, each of the many different brands of diet pills is composed of a wide variety of chemical ingredients, so each of their side effects will also vary, but here are some of the basic effects you can anticipate.

Drugs like orlistat (Xenical) remove extra fat through the intestines. These fat blockers can result in painful stomach cramping, a gas build up and/or diarrhea. Because these fat blocking pills also tend to reduce the body's ability to absorb nutrients and vitamins (which are essential for health), you would also want to take a daily multivitamin supplements.

Sibutramine (Meridia) and drugs that suppress the appetite will stimulate the sympathetic nervous system. Unfortunately, this can raise your blood pressure and increase your heart rate. And having higher blood pressure and a higher heart rate will increase your risk for a heart attack, especially if you are already suffering from high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat or any other heart ailment. Between 1998 and 2003, the FDA reported 49 deaths related to sibutramine.

Of course this is not to say that you won't also have minor side effects like headaches, constipation, and insomnia as sibutramine will tend to influence your sleep patterns.

Now let's look at herbal diet pills, which are so often touted as being "all natural" . . .

Nikki London's

BodyLifeSecrets.com
Maui, Hawaii