Owing to significant findings and breakthroughs in the study of obesity and its related health risks, the market has lately been swamped with a deluge of diet pills, weight loss pills and herbal diet pills, each carefully backed up by compelling credentials and titillating testimonials. The competing testimonials and claims have even reached ’snake oil’ and ‘miracle water’ proportions, all in the name of making substantial sales. Possible side effects and health warnings are glossed over in the marketing blurb. While there are many legitimate, safe and viable diet and weight loss pills, dangerous fakes also abound out there.Many of the dubious diet and weight loss medications have dangerous or unproven ingredients that imperil the health. Worse, because of weak government regulation, many of those already banned, such as ephedra, still proliferate in the market. One therefore has to approach the subject of diet and weight loss medications with a healthy sense of caution. And this is good because most of the legitimate diet pills and weight loss pills (although approved by the U.S. FDA) have adverse side effects, which can range from increase in blood pressure and/or heart rate, palpitations, restlessness, insomnia, agitation, glaucoma, stomach pain and flatulence, among others.
Caution should also be exercised in checking herbal diet pills, which although natural and presumed safe, have their share of dangerous fakes. After all, not all herbs are safe for the health. The best tack is to get expert medical advice when scouting for the right diet pills, weight loss pills and herbal diet pills.