›› Herbal Diet Pills
Herbal diet pills
are very popular these days as an alternative to more traditional
methods of weight loss like diet and exercise. Herbal
treatments in general are very trendy today, which I find a little
worrisome for several reasons.
First of all, just about anything can be in an herbal diet
pill. ‘Herbs’ are a kind of loophole in
the FDA system, as they are not classified as drugs and therefore
don’t have the rigorous standards for testing and safety that
drugs normally get. Make no mistake about it though, herbs
can be every bit as potent and harmful as drugs. The
difference between medicinal herbs and drugs is really quite vague
anyway, as most drugs themselves come from a kind of plant or
herb.
Most of the time the ‘herbal’ classification
doesn’t last very long; the FDA eventually calls it a drug
and brings in the scientists. When that happens herbal diet
pills often either become available only by prescription or are banned
completely. Snooping around a little from site to site
selling herbal diet pills, it is 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!’ You have to ask yourself,
if the FDA is likely going to ban an herbal diet pill you’re
interested in, should you be taking it at all?
I took a few herbal diet pills in college once on a whim, and I
didn’t eat anything for nearly two days afterwards.
I also didn’t really get much sleep either.
Anything that makes you wired like that and kills your appetite so
completely just isn’t 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 my life. A year later I discovered that the FDA
had banned the same herbal diet pills I had taken, and I have to wonder
what it was I had put in my body.
Anyway, just don’t be fooled by the word
‘herbal’ in an herbal diet pill. I would
actually trust a regular diet pill that is FDA approved a lot more than
some herbal diet pill concoction that has who knows what in
it. The words herbal and natural are marketing ploys and
should never be confused with the word safe unless there’s
been some testing to prove it.
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