Hooked on to diet pills?
Stop right now! These are no miracle pills, and they definitely don’t provide a long term solution
Most women believe that diet pills will help them get into shape. It’s easy, just pop a pill and eat all you want, right? Wrong! Nutritionists recommend that you have a better chance of losing the pounds and keeping it that way by sweating out those calories rather than popping the pill. The reason being, diet pills can create complications if consumed for more than three months.
As of today, there are three different types of diet pills available in the market. One that suppresses appetite, the other that increases metabolism, and the last one that inhibits the absorption of fats. Payal Batra, nutritionist of Hiranandani hospital says, “Only the first and the third category of diet pills are recommended by nutritionists. The second one isn’t, because it has the least amount of scientific evidence to back it up.”
Sibutramine, the appetite suppresser and Oristat, the pill that inhibits absorption of fats by the body are the most popular diet pills in the market. However, neither of them can be consumed by anybody and everybody. “Diet pills are only subscribed to those who are around fifteen kilos overweight,” says Payal.
“When we feel that the person’s weight is hazardous to his/her life, only then do we subscribe the pills.” Though a point to be noted here is that these pills are never subscribed in seclusion; they are always accompanied with a well-planned diet and an exercise regime.
As most pills have their side effects, so do diet pills. A faster heart rate and a risk of high blood pressure are what you need to watch out for. “We subscribe multiple vitamins with diet pills to avoid these problems,” reveals Payal, adding that a nutritionist has to be extremely careful while selecting a patient. “We insist that a patient lose his/her weight the natural way. If the patient is equipped with a particular tendency that restrains weight loss, only then do we give them these pills. For others, it is not recommended.”
So there you go, a short cut can never win long term success. You’d be better off exercising to shed those excess pounds, ‘coz popping diet pills will not help. On the contrary, it will just create additional medical complications.
