Pros and Cons of Weight Loss Pills

In everyday life people determine their actions by weighing the good and the bad of that action in order to come to a decision on whether or not to go through with it.  Whether or not to consume diet pills in order to lose weight is one of these situations where people who want to lose weight must see the pros and cons to make sure it something they want to do.

 Taking diet pills when you don’t have enough time in the day to exercise is a much more convenient way to lose weight.  They can also be the starting point in a person’s diet and since, for many of them, you don’t need to have a prescription to buy them.  Without a prescription you also save money from not having to visit the doctor.

There are also downsides to taking diet pills.  Diet pills can’t be used for everyone and studies have shown that people with the most success in taking diet pills are those whose BMI is over 30 and also people with a BMI over 27 who have health problems related to their weight.   Anything below that, including people who only want to lose a few pounds, most likely won’t get very good results.  Another thing is that many diet pills on the market work by curbing your appetite, which sounds like a good thing since a lower intake of calories leads to weight loss, but in doing so it also slows down the body’s metabolism.  When the metabolism slows down it makes it harder for a person to lose weight.  The use of diet pills can also often result in a wide range of unwanted side effects.  The side effects vary from smaller things like nausea, dizziness, and an upset stomach to serious health risks including an increase in the possibility of stroke, high blood pressure, seizures, increased heart rate, heart attack and even death.  These more considerable health risks are known to be seen in diet pills containing the ingredient Ephedra, also known as Ephedrine.  Although this is the ingredient that is mainly spoken of relating to harmful diet pills, users should beware as it is not the only ingredient known to cause severe health complications.

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