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Prescription Diet Pill: Beware Of Harmful Side Effects

June 1st, 2009 -- Posted in Diet Pill | No Comments »

Most people that need to make use of a diet pill have to have these pills prescribed by a doctor, who in turn need to recommend only those prescription diet pills that are proven to be effective and which are also safe to use. Unfortunately, many prescription diet pills that are available on the market today happen to be those that cause harmful side effects, and so to play it safe you should only trust a doctor’s recommendation regarding taking a safe and effective diet pill.

Phentermine, Orilistat And Meridian

The US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) does periodic checks over many of the available prescription diet pills, and there are certain of these diet pills that have been approved. Among the better prescription diet pills you should check out ones such as Phentermine, Orilistat as well as Meridian.

As mentioned, most prescription diet pills have to be subjected to stringent clinical trials and only those that are approved by the FDA or which doctors consider effective and safe should be tried out; otherwise, the risk of unwanted health problems as well as side effects can make untested diet pills a real health hazard.

One of the latest prescription diet pills that are being sold on the market today is the one known as Xenical that is a drug that has been designed to lower the body’s ability to absorb fat by as much as a third. According to studies conducted regarding safety and efficacy of this prescription diet pill it has been found that continuous use over a year could lead to weight loss of about ten percent.

The only trouble with using Xenical is that it can lead to unwanted side effects of which diarrhea is a good example and this side effect occurs because of non-digestion of body fat. Therefore, when using this prescription diet pill it is also necessary to take low fat diet. Once you have a doctor’s prescription in hand you can then head down to the neighborhood chemist and purchase your supply of prescription diet pills which hopefully will help you lose weight in a reliable as well as safe manner.

The Alli diet pill has been tested and approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and as yet, users of this prescription diet pill have not reported any noticeable side effects. However, it is best to use this diet pill along with low fat diet. In addition, you will also need to exercise regularly in order for this prescription diet pill to prove more effective.

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The History And Evolution Of The Diet Pill

May 31st, 2009 -- Posted in Diet Pill | No Comments »

A diet pill seems to be the best solution to anyone that wishes to lose weight without at the same time expending much effort in achieving normal body weight. The popularity of the diet pill can be gauged by the amount of advertising that goes into selling the many benefits that users of these pills hope to achieve. Rather than trusting blindly in advertised claims it makes more sense to take a dispassionate view of the pros and cons of such wonder pills so that you know at the very outset what you are letting you in for.

Maiden Appearance

The first diet pill to hit the market made its maiden appearance somewhere in the early nineteen hundreds when many people that had become overweight were given a simple solution that would help them shed those unwanted pounds. Scientists had already established the fact that weight gain was mainly due to overeating and so the search had begun to come up with a simple solution to help people eat less.

The early diet pill was not a versatile pill and nor was it unobtrusive as is the case with the modern version. The solution proffered by those early scientists was to place some benzocaine on the patient’s tongue which would leave a bad taste in the mouth and consequently would lead to killing of further craving for more food. However, a similar and alternative solution could also have been tried which was to wash the mouth with soap or some other foul matter.

The next step in the evolution of the diet pill took place when it was found that it was better to fool the brain into believing that the stomach was full and therefore there was no further need to eat any more food. The drug ‘speed’ was supposed to do this and so was incorporated in the second version of the early diet pill. Besides causing side effects, this type of diet pill did not find favor with the public and so failed miserably.

Another development in the diet pill took place when thyroid hormones were used in order to increase rate of metabolism.

Whichever kind of diet pill is used, even if it is supposedly the best diet pill available, there is still an urgent need that you first of all understand what the risks to your health is before proceeding further with consuming these pills. Often, some of these diet pills contain matter that when combined with certain medications will harm your health. It is therefore better to look for alternatives to the diet pill so that you can lose weight without needlessly risking your health in the quest to lose weight without expending too much effort.

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