Find Out If Diet Pills Work

     Diet pills should not be viewed as a be all and end all in order to lose weight. They should not be relied upon and you should have a proper, healthy diet in order to lose weight, in the first place. But what they can do is aid to your efforts of dieting and exercising and you actually do have to put in the effort for those too, if you want to see results and you want this to work in the long term instead of just being a short term fad.

Appetite suppressers are the first form of diet pills that I will talk about. The way that they work is by tricking the body into thinking that it is full, so that you don't eat as much, but also into reducing the appetite as well so that you don't feel hungry at the same time. They do this by raising your heart rate and blood pressure and decreasing your appetite, by stimulating the body's nervous system.

Another kind of diet pill will block fats. These inhibit the absorption of fat, as the name suggests, and means that the fat is stored in your fat cells, making some of the fat you consume not harm you. Normally, a substance called Chitosan is used in these medications, however, there aren't any published studies that actually back up that these work, so there are risks involved.

Diuretic diet pills, otherwise known as water pills, make you lose weight by taking the excess fluids out of the body. These are often via the use of chemicals in the pills so should be ingested with caution, and side effects can often arise. Green tea is a natural alternative to this type of diet pill.

Fat burners not only stimulate the central nervous system, but they also raise your metabolism and turn the fat that is stored on your body into energy. Body builders, before competitions, often use them in order to shed unwanted fat. They come in different forms, thermogenic, topical and liquid fat burners being some of the popular ones. A lot of them have caffeine in them that you could become addicted to and side effects often happen, such as headaches, depression and nausea.

Isabel De Los Rios, a nutritionist and exercise specialist, says that she thinks people don't really realize what damage they cause to their bodies when they use pill for weight loss. Your metabolism becomes "lazy" when you attempt to pick it up artificially. When you finish using the pills, your metabolism has become too lazy to do anything and you end up gaining the weight back anyway.

The best way to get your metabolism up is to eat healthy protein, Isabel says, also fat and carbohydrates. Your metabolism is meant to metabolize healthy food into energy and muscle in order for the body to do exercise.

While diet pills may help you to lose some weight in the short term, they must not be relied upon, and the healthiest way to lose weight is always how the body was intended to work, the natural way.

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