All diet pills, obesity drugs or weight loss medications work in one of three different ways by (a) appetite suppression , (b) metabolism enhancement , or (c) adjusting the way your body absorbs calories for your food..
Diet pills are not the be all and end all for losing weight and are not a miracle cure for obesity , to achieve that they only way is eat less calories that your body uses to function and to maintain a healthy lifestyle including some physical exercise. However Diet pills will help in your battle to lose weight and get slim. Here are the facts.
There is only one FDA approved long term use diet pill and that’s Xenical which works by reducing the way in which your body absorbs calories from fat in your diet. This fat is excreted from the body via the anus often dripping out at inappropriate times. The patient has to follow a low fat diet as the tablets will cause a constant leaking problem if too much fat is ingested. These tablets are often only available from your doctor.
Other diet pills available generally fall into two distinct categories.
Appetite Suppressants. Catecholamines like phentermine and other amphetamine-based drugs or anti-depressants work as appetite suppressants by blocking the cannabinoid receptors and taking away the subconscious need for the body to habitually keep asking to be feed.
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Metabolic Enhancers are also stimulant based products often natural such as caffeine , green tea extract or chilli which speed up the way the body works and increases the amount of calories that the body burns.
Tests on most pills show that average users do indeed loose significant amounts of weight if they stick to the diet and keep taking the pills. As you would expect the dieters do lose most of the weight during the first four or five weeks but its the ones that stick to the plan that go on to have the best results with mixing both metabolic and appetite specific pills.
The History of Diet Pills
About 2000 years ago Soranus of Ephesus, a Greek physician prescribed elixirs of laxatives and exercise to people to lose weight and this pretty much stayed the same until about 100 years ago when new drugs came onto the market offering anti-obesity pills by the biological process of oxidative phosphorylation. This caused the body to rise in temperature causing sweating and what we now refer to as increasing the metabolic rate causing the user to burn many more calories. These products were deemed as a little unsafe and by 1940 were withdrawn my the FDA although some examples are still available around the world as they are easy and cheap to manufacture.
Following of from that Benzedrine ( an amphetamine ) became very popular as the best diet pill by primarily suppressing appetite. Use of this type of amphetamines grew during the next 30 years until people became more aware of the side effects associated with taking these unregulated products. Often the diet pills were a cocktail of stimulants, thyroid hormones, diuretics, digitalis, laxatives and barbiturates. In 1967 the US Senate started an investigation into diet pills and gradually introduced greater restrictions and better regulation on the market which culminated in the banning of on the market use of amphetamines in all diet pills.
Ephedrine , Phentermine , Fenfluramine and Dexfenfluramine (Redux) were developed and brought to the market in the last 20 years with Fen-phen and dexfenfluramine finally getting withdrawn in 1997 and Ephedra was removed from the ( US only ) market in 2004.
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