Are Herbal Diet Pills Right For You?


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.


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.
Catalogue: Health & Fitness | Diet
Title: Are Herbal Diet Pills Right For You? By: Lisa Scott

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