January 4, 2008, Newsletter Issue #97: Diet pills - do you really want them?

Tip of the Week

There's no magic bullet when it comes to diet pills. There are generally the following types of diet pills:



1. Simply diuretic - they will make you lose a few pounds really fast, but all the loss will be water loss.



2. Metabolism enhancers or "thermogetics" - they will make your body to speed up all functions and burn energy even at rest, but they will make you restless, irritated, having attention and concentration problems, fast heart beat, maybe higher blood pressure, etc.



3. Appetite suppressants, with side effects similar to the above.



4. Laxatives. I leave it to you to imagine the consequences of such approach unless the laxative is just fiber supplement. Meanwhile, there are regular foods that would help you, sometimes fast, too.



Fibers create the zero-calorie bulk thus helping to stop eating every meal sooner because our brain, surprisingly as it is, reacts faster to food's volume than calorie content. There's less calories in bulky food, plate for plate, nevertheless it stops eating as effective.



Another food type, fat, reduces appetite AND increases resting metabolism without any pills! People on a high fat, low carb diet, could eat 300 Calories a day more and still lose weight. However, they didn't want to. They ate less than their fellows on a low fat diet because they were always less hungry.

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