How Safe Are Weight Loss Pills?

Nowadays, more and more people are turning obese. Obesity is the gateway for many serious ailments like blood pressure, diabetes etc. You can attribute many reasons to this trend. Change of lifestyle, eating habits, lack of physical exercise, anxiety etc are some of the reasons for obesity. Physicians always insist that the obese should take to exercises, proper dieting, etc to reduce weight.

Weight loss by pills:

Many weight loss pills are now available in the market. Many of these pills claim to be herbal. The manufacturers of these pills make loud claims of quick reduction of weight in matter of days. Some of the manufacturers even claim the pills are free from any side effects. These claims of the manufacturers attract obese people.

How safe are the pills?

In fact, doctors and nutrition experts denounce the claim made by the manufacturers of these weight reduction pills. Experts warn that these pills, whether they are herbal based or chemical based, will cause serious side effects in long run.
For example, those who suffer from eating irregularity take pills, which contain phentermine, sibutramine, fefluramine and deithylpropion. Experts say that these chemicals present in the weight loss pills could have serious side effects like dizziness, anxiety, headache, insomnia, high blood pressure and irregular heartbeat, etc.

There are medicines, meant to absorb fats present in the food. Orlistat is one natural fat, essentially required by the body. When the pills block the fat, it blocks even the very essential Orlistat fat as well. This restricts the supply of vitamins to the body. At the same time, it affects the digestive mechanism of the body, resulting in indigestion, frequent diarrhea, etc.

There are pills, which claim to remove excess water present in the body. After removal of the excess water, naturally, it results in reduction of weight. However, this has serious side effects. These pills remove the water stored in kidney, lever etc. About seventy percent of body components consist of water, and removing water from the entire body components is just suicidal. The pills cannot differentiate between excess water and the essential water. By removing the water from the body, the mechanism of the body gets affected and it leads to very serious side effects.

Therefore, instead of taking these pills, it is advisable to follow other methods such as proper dieting, physical exercise, etc which are the safest means to reduce weight.

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