Diet pills can be extremely dangerous for your health.

icandoit
icandoit Posts: 4,163 Member
edited September 18 in Health and Weight Loss
If you don't believe me just read below to know about the bad effect of diet pills on your health and why you should stay away from them. And do you know that diet pills might not work after a while in helping you lose weight. Most of these diet pills work by curbing your appetite so that you can lower you calorie intake. But if you lower your calorie intake, your metabolism rate might drop down too.

Slower metabolism will then result in slowing down your weight loss. So after a while people taking diet pills might notice that they are not losing much weight as they did earlier. So its really a very short term solution to weight loss.

The bad effect of diet pills range from heart problems, seizures, irregular heartbeat, heart attack, hair loss, nervousness, high blood pressure and many more. These are reported by people consuming such pills.

The ingredients contained in most diet pills, namely ephedrine and phentermine can also cause harmful side effects. Prolonged use of Phentermine is known to cause blurred vision, dry mouth, nausea, vomiting etc.

Ephedrine can cause heart attacks and seizures. It has been linked to many deaths by heart attacks. It can also cause sleeplessness and nervousness.

Even though many people are buying and using diet pills, they do not realize the severe damage they can be doing to their health. Most diet pills are not controlled by government or approved by FDA. The companies are just out there to make some quick bucks and you might be putting your health at risk if you are not aware of the bad effects of diet pills.

So what do you do?

Even though it is important to lose weight, keep in mind that you should look for healthy ways to lose weight.

Eat healthy, maintain an active lifestyle, eat more of fruits and vegetables, drink sufficient quantity of water every day, do moderate exercise regularly and avoid junk food if you want to stay healthy and fit and lose excess weight.

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  • icandoit
    icandoit Posts: 4,163 Member
    If you don't believe me just read below to know about the bad effect of diet pills on your health and why you should stay away from them. And do you know that diet pills might not work after a while in helping you lose weight. Most of these diet pills work by curbing your appetite so that you can lower you calorie intake. But if you lower your calorie intake, your metabolism rate might drop down too.

    Slower metabolism will then result in slowing down your weight loss. So after a while people taking diet pills might notice that they are not losing much weight as they did earlier. So its really a very short term solution to weight loss.

    The bad effect of diet pills range from heart problems, seizures, irregular heartbeat, heart attack, hair loss, nervousness, high blood pressure and many more. These are reported by people consuming such pills.

    The ingredients contained in most diet pills, namely ephedrine and phentermine can also cause harmful side effects. Prolonged use of Phentermine is known to cause blurred vision, dry mouth, nausea, vomiting etc.

    Ephedrine can cause heart attacks and seizures. It has been linked to many deaths by heart attacks. It can also cause sleeplessness and nervousness.

    Even though many people are buying and using diet pills, they do not realize the severe damage they can be doing to their health. Most diet pills are not controlled by government or approved by FDA. The companies are just out there to make some quick bucks and you might be putting your health at risk if you are not aware of the bad effects of diet pills.

    So what do you do?

    Even though it is important to lose weight, keep in mind that you should look for healthy ways to lose weight.

    Eat healthy, maintain an active lifestyle, eat more of fruits and vegetables, drink sufficient quantity of water every day, do moderate exercise regularly and avoid junk food if you want to stay healthy and fit and lose excess weight.
  • msarro
    msarro Posts: 2,748 Member
    Quick fixes are just that, quick fixes. You may have some success with diet pills, but then the instant you stop taking them you balloon right back up. Why? Because you never really learned to alter your patterns of behavior, and to live/eat healthy.

    If you want a lifelong change, you have to work for it. PLUS a lot of those chemicals later turn out to be dangerous. Just look at ephedra :(
  • Mary24
    Mary24 Posts: 398
    I know all to well what diet pills can do, I was on Hidrocxycut (sorry for spelling) and I had used them for a month I got all these tinny red dots on my body, I lost 20 lbs that month but I stoped tacking them right after I saw the red dots. I will not use them ever agian. I plan to lose the weight the healthy way.:smile:
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