The Problems with Diet Pills

The Problems with Diet Pills

Diet pills have been popular for at least 30 years and there have been many different pills in that time. In looking at diet pills we can see that things have really changed with the way that diet pill makers have targeted fat loss. In just the last few years we have seen the following:

ECA Stack - A combination of ephedrine for energy, caffeine for energy and aspirin to stop the shakes ( how could this really be good for you

Ma Huang - and ephedrine substitute that was seen through fairly queickly but is not yet banned like ephedrine is.

Fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine - also known as phen phen was also banned by the FDA.

What do all of these diet pills have in common? They raise your metabolism to a ridiculous level and try to use this to lose weight. Although at the time these seemed to be a good idea of course they have all been linked to cardiac problems because of the way that they caused hypertension.

Now we see a new breed of diet pills on the market and these pills are a bit different. For one thing the new diet pills do not seem to try to raise hypertension levels but instead look at the way that you body works and how you look at food.

One of the stimuli that these new breed of pills try to help you is by stopping your from being hungry so that you do not binge. A good example of this is Hoodia. The only problem with Hoodia is that it is almost impossible to find because of the demand so most companies try to fake you out by putting such low levels in their pills that they will not help curb your food cravings at all.

The next kind of diet supplement would be something like green tea extracts. What green tea does is curb your appetite but more importantly it helps to naturally increase the rate that your body burns fat without raising your metabolism and causing dangerous hypertension.

In looking at the past and present of diet pills you can see that as the diet industry has matured you are now finding more and more types of products that are safer for you because the products are aiding your body in losing fat instead of the old way of diet pills just forcing you to burn fat.