Dangers Of Unregulated Diet Pills

Dangers Of Unregulated Diet Pills

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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 didn't really get much sleep either. Anything that stimulates you like that and kills your appetite so completely just isn't good for you.

Natural food store herbal diet pills are big business. But some 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 reduce your weight. Second, many of these herbal diet supplements 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.

The pills I took were supposedly 'ephedra free' and were supposedly totally natural and safe, I do not think I ever felt so polluted and ill in my life. A short while later I discovered that the FDA had banned these herbal diet pills I had taken, and I have to wonder what it was I had put in my body.

Herbal diet pills are extremely 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 loophole in the FDA system, as they are not classified as drugs and therefore do not have the rigorous standards for testing and safety that drugs normally get.

Make no mistake , herbs can be every bit as potent and dangerous as drugs. The difference between medicinal herbs and drugs is vague anyway, as most perscription drugs themselves come from a kind of plant or herb.

Most of the time the 'herbal' classification doesnt last very long; 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.

Unscrupulous sites even use it to their advantage saying things to the effect of 'buy it now before the FDA bans it!'. You need to ask yourself, if the FDA is likely going to ban the herbal diet pill you're interested in, should you be taking it at all?

Do not be fooled by the word 'herbal' in an herbal diet pill. I would actually trust a regular diet pill that is FDA approved a lot more than some herbal diet pill concoction with it's unregulated and monitored contents. The words herbal and natural are marketing misrepresentations and should never be confused with the word safe unless there's been FDA testing to prove it.


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