Weight Loss Supplements: What You Need to Know

The weight loss supplement industry is huge and only growing as more people around the globe look for a little help in shedding their unwanted pounds. It's also an industry that's rife with fraud and false advertising, and in fact a good percentage of the products that are out there don't even work. Worse yet are the supplements that are effective but can permanently damage your health.

The so called fat blockers have to be among the most absurd of the snake oil diet supplements that you can find on the market. The way that they supposedly work, is by soaking up or somehow blocking fat that has been eaten. Now for people who like greasy food these sure would be nice if they worked, but they don't. In short everything that you eat will get digested, even a fat blocker pill.

Then there are weight loss supplements that rely on any one or combination of a litany of synthetic stimulants to supposedly help you burn off your excess fat. Now they work on three levels. Level one is they work to kill your appetite. Level two is they temporarily crank up your metabolism, and level three is they function as diuretics. The problem here though, is they're addictive, and can cause organ damage.

Then there are the weight loss supplements that are really for the most part "just a multivitamin pill". Of course they'll also contain some types of magical ingredients like extract of avocado and mango, but if you read the ingredients list carefully you'll see that the rest is just vitamins. Of course these supplements also come with a diet plan that you're supposed to stick to, and that is where the weight loss comes from.

Now the grapefruit diet has been around for a few decades, and now you can even buy it in pill form. Citric acid pills that are supposed to somehow "melt away" fat from your body or in your stomach that you ate. The whole concept is ridiculous! That you can somehow eat any type of acid and have it burn off fat cells. By the way, your stomach already contains plenty of much more powerful hydrochloric acid.

So in the end, what it all boils down to is that you simply must consume fewer calories if you really want to lose weight. There really is no magic bullet that can replace that fact. There are however, "natural and safe" diet aids that just don't have the adverse side effects and also just as importantly, actually help. They contain natural mild stimulants like caffeine and antioxidants to help keep you healthy.

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