The Choice of a Weight Loss Pill

     Everyone is aware of the fact that the key to weight loss is to get rid of the unwanted fats that has been accumulated in the body, which can be achieved by exercise and restricting the intake of calories. These facts can be easily said than implemented when people are too busy these days even to adopt a diet plan or an exercise schedule. So the immediate alternate is to go for a weight loss pill to avoid crash diets to lose weight fast.

To go for a dieting pill a person would like to consider various options available. These options may be based on the availability of dieting pills can be broadly classified into three categories.

Prescription drugs: these weight loss pills are available only from a drug store and can be purchased only through doctor抯 prescription. The patients taking such pills have to be constantly monitored by a physician. This kind of weight loss pill is suitable for a person who wants to regularly visit a doctor and take pills for weight loss under medical supervision.

The second category commonly called as the OTC, which means 揙ver The Counter? these drugs can be purchased without the doctor抯 prescription and they are available in drug store and supermarkets. The above two categories are carefully regulated by a division of FDA called as 揅enter for Drug Evaluation and Research?

The third category of weight loss pills are composed of naturally obtained ingredients so it is classified as the Herbal Supplement Diets. Natural weight loss pill is preferred for their safety as it contains all natural ingredients. These products are available in the supermarket. Such weight loss pills are less costly and do not require a doctor抯 prescription as FDA considers them as food supplements and not as drugs. These products are monitored by a different division of FDA: 揅enter for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition?

So far we have seen the categories of diet pills based on their availability and now we shall classify them based on the mode of action. These pills may be classified into three major kinds based on their mechanism of action. They are fat binders, fat burners and appetite suppressants. A person may choose a particular type based on the requirements.

The fat binders are also known as fat blockers. The ingredients of this kind of pill will bind with the fats in the diet and prevent their absorption by the body; hence the fats can not reach the blood stream to be stored and cause overweight.

Fat burners are those pills that can result in faster metabolism of the body thereby increasing the energy expenditure of the body. Thus these pills can help to burn more fat even that has already been stored in the body.

Appetite suppressants are functionally different from the two already mentioned. We know that hunger is a physiological process by which the body responds to requirements of nutrition whereas appetite is a psychological motivation for the intake of food even when a person is not in requirement of nutrition or hungry. This common urge results in eating for the pleasure of taste and as such carves for food that is not balanced nutritionally. It is this psychological phenomenon that has to be curbed. So an appetite suppressant does not act in the stomach but in the sensory receptors of the brain.

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