April 29, 2008
Controversy about the diet pills
Over-the-counter diet pills are becoming more and more popular these days. Americans are getting fatter, and clever business people are wondering how they can make some fast and easy money. Books, magazines and self-help tapes dealing with the subject of weight loss are present everywhere, and it seems that the public just can’t get enough. In all this madness, diet pills have become one of the most popular places to turn.
The majority of people that use diet pills have no idea about their dangers and their non-effectiveness. The diet pill industry emphasizes how efficient their products are by presenting many success stories. A typical success story goes more or less like this: “Susan stepped on the scale and almost screamed. She had gained 90 pounds since she gave birth to her baby. She knew she had to lose some weight, but had no idea where to start. She tried (here you put the name of some over-the-counter diet pill) and within several months, she was back to a perfect size 2 and felt better than ever before.”
Such “stories of success” do nothing except for giving people false hopes of fast weight loss. A nutritionist Coco Newton believes that “diet pills, similarly to any diet fads, are not a solution to the problem. As a matter of fact, diet pills can cause people to gain weight because they do nothing to change their food habits. Anyone who says they are a solution is wrong. People can become reliant on them, and at that point, have given the power to the pill.”
Newton also claims that diet pills “are not designed for individual use. This public approach does not take into account the biochemical needs of each person.”
No matter what your decision regarding over-the-counter diet pills may be the importance of checking with a doctor before you begin any weight-loss system is strongly advised.