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Over Stimulated By Natural Weight Loss Pills
I took a few herbal diet pills several years ago on a whim, and I didn't eat anything for nearly two days afterwards. I also did not really get much sleep either. Anything that makes you wired like that and reduces your appetite so completely just isn't good for you.
Natural food store herbal diet pills is a large portion of the $13 billion supplement business. Many claims about the supposed weight loss benefits of 'natural' appetite suppressants are very misleading. First, there is very little evidence that these herbal diet pills help you to lose weight. Second, many of these herbal diet pills are amphetamine-type stimulants, which can over-stimulate the nervous system, causing ill-health and nasty side-effects. Also, some diet supplements containing ephedra have been linked to serious side effects such as heart attacks, seizures, and death.
While the pills I took were supposedly 'ephedra free' and were supposedly totally natural and safe, I do not think I ever felt so defiled and afflicted in my life. A year later I discovered that the FDA had banned these herbal diet pills I had taken, and now I wonder what it was I had put in my body.
Herbal diet pills are very popular today as an alternative to more traditional methods of weight loss like diet and exercise. I find it worrisome that herbal treatments are so popular for several reasons.
First of all, just about anything can be in an herbal diet pill. 'Herbs' are a kind of loophole in the FDA system, as they are not classified as drugs and therefore don't have the rigorous standards for testing and safety that drugs normally get.
Make no mistake about it though, herbs can be every bit as potent and harmful as illegal narcotics. The difference between medicinal herbs and medicinaldrugs is vague anyway, as most perscription drugs themselves come from a kind of plant or herb.
Typically, 'herbal' classification is short lived; the FDA eventually calls it a drug and brings in the scientists. When that happens herbal diet pills often either become completely banned or available only with a perscription. When researching herbal diet pills, it is clear that the herbal pill manufactures are all too familiar with the FDA.
Many sites even use it to their advantage saying things to the effect of 'buy it now before the FDA bans it!'. You have to ask yourself, if the FDA will eventually ban a herbal diet pill you're interested in, should you be taking it at all?
Do not be fooled by the word 'natural' in a natural diet pill. It is better to trust a regular diet pill that is FDA approved a lot more than some herbal diet pill potion with it's unregulated and monitored contents. The words herbal and natural are marketing misrepresentations and should not be confused with the word safe unless there has been FDA testing to prove it.
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