Herbal Diet Pills
Herbal diet pills are extremely popular these days as the acceptable alternative to more traditional methods of weight loss like diet and exercise.
Actually, herbal treatments in general are very trendy today, but we need to be careful of them for several reasons.
First of all, suppliers can pop just about anything into herbal diet pills. Herbs are a something of a loophole in the FDA system because they are not classified as drugs and therefore don't have the rigorous standards for testing and safety that drugs normally get. But let's be clear about it though - herbs can be every bit as potent and harmful as official drugs. The difference between medicinal herbs and drugs is quite vague. If you think about it, most drugs themselves come from some kind of plant or herb in the first place.
Also, much of the time the herbal classification doesn't last very long. Often the FDA will end up calling it a drug and then they bring in the scientists. When that happens herbal diet pills usually become available either on prescription only or they are banned completely.
Snooping around a little on websites that sell herbal diet pills, it's clear that the makers of these things are all too familiar with the FDA. Many sites even use it to their advantage saying things to the effect of "buy it now before the FDA bans it!" That should tell us something. We have to ask ourselves, if the FDA is going to ban an herbal diet pill we're interested in, should we be taking it at all?
I confess that I once took a few herbal diet pills in college on a whim. I didn't eat anything for nearly two days afterwards and I didn't really get much sleep either. Anything that puts you into that sort of state or condition and kills your appetite so completely can't be good for you.
While they were "Ephedra free" and were supposedly totally natural and safe, I don't think I'd ever felt so polluted and ill in all my life. I wasn't at all surprised when a year later I discovered that the FDA had banned the very same herbal diet pills I had taken. I sometimes wonder what sort of product I actually put in my body.
The point is, don't be fooled too easily by the word "herbal" in an herbal diet pill. I would probably trust a regular diet pill that is FDA approved a lot more than some herbal diet pill made by some outfit I've never heard of containing some strange concoction. Who knows what's likely to be in it?
The words herbal and natural are marketing ploys and should never be confused with the word safe unless there's been some officially recognised testing to prove it.
This article was written by Rebecca T Shaw for Help & Advice.
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