Fat Burners – Are Herbal Diet Pills Right For You?
I took a couple of herbal diet pills in college once on a whim, and I did not eat anything for nearly two days afterwards. I also didn’t truly get a lot sleep either. Anything that makes you wired like that and kills your appetite so completely just isn’t healthy for you.
While they were ‘ephedra free’ and were supposedly completely natural and safe, I don’t believe I’d ever felt so polluted and ill in my life. A year after that, I found out 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 extremely popular nowadays as an alternative solution to more traditional methods of weight loss like diet and exercise. Herbal treatments in general are very trendy today, which I find a bit worrisome for a number of reasons.
To begin with, just about anything can be in an herbal diet pill. ‘Herbs’ are a type of loophole in the FDA system, as they are not classified as drugs and as a result do not have the rigorous standards for testing and safety that drugs usually get.
Make no mistake about it however, herbs could be every bit as potent and harmful as drugs. The difference between medicinal herbs and drugs is truly quite vague at any rate, as most drugs themselves come from a type of plant or herb.
Most of the time the ‘herbal’ classification does not last very long; the FDA ultimately calls it a drug and brings in the scientists. When that happens, herbal diet pills frequently either become available only by prescription or are banned totally. Snooping around a bit 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 need to ask yourself, if the FDA is likely going to ban a herbal diet pill you are considering, should you be taking it at all?
At any rate, just don’t be fooled by the word ‘herbal’ in an herbal diet pill. I’d really trust a regular diet pill that is FDA approved much more than some herbal diet pill concoction which has who knows what in it. The words herbal and natural are marketing ploys and should never be confused with the word safe except if there’s been some testing to prove it.
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