Weight Loss Diet Supplement
A lot of people ask me for about which kind of weight loss diet supplement I recommend. My short answer is always: none. Because you really do not need any kind of supplement or weight loss pill in order to get slim.
I am not totally opposed to supplements – but the vast majority of them simply are modern day snake-oil. What you really need to do is to change your diet. I know lots of people who changed their eating habits the right way, and they lost weight. But I don’t know a single one who did not change his or her eating habits the right way, but took a weight loss supplement and lost weight successfully.
The only thing that most of these supplements help to make slimmer is your wallet. And some of them can even be outright dangerous.
Take for example the popular weight loss drug Xenical or Alli. The following is a statement taken from the FDA website:
There is a potential, rare occurrence of liver failure in people who take the weight-loss medications Xenical or Alli, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
It is a simple fact that dietary supplements do not have to pass the same kinds of rigorous standards that prescription drugs have to pass before they can be introduced to the marketplace. Manufacturers also do not need to prove the effectiveness of their supplements, and the truthfulness of the claims in their advertisements is often questionable.
Specially if you have any already existing health problems or already take some kind of medication, you should be very careful when it comes to using a weight loss diet supplement. We highly recommend talking with your physician before taking a supplement, because he might identify potential health hazards or contraindications.
In July 2010, the FDA cautioned consumers again to be careful with weight loss diet supplements. The weight loss drug Qnexa for example has possible side effects likepossible birth defects, psychiatric problems and maybe heart problems too. A final verdict will be made in October 2010.
Don’t Let The “Experts” Fool You
Oftentimes, advertisements for the latest weight loss diet supplement are made to project a very professional and medical look. You can often see a picture of a doctor in a white lab coat, and underneath the picture there usually is a quote where he states that such and such product is effective.
The copywriters who create these kinds of advertisements are very clever in how they use medical knowledge and mix it with their unsubstantiated claims to make their advertisement look more trustworthy.
In fact, there are usually several lawyers that go over each advertisement, because the marketing people operate so closely to what would be an illegal statement, that they constantly need to be checked upon. The result of this are often advertisements that are not legally wrong, but they are so misleading that they effectively cheat consumers.
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