Diet Pill Dangers

Diet Pill Dangers!

Many times a week I am asked for my opinion on diet pills. My first comment is that you are all big enough to make your own minds up for yourself but do look into the facts first.

Broadly speaking, there are diet pills, diet supplements and natural herbal remedies. You can find out more details about how diet supplements reduce your calorie intake here and how diet pills help you burn calories here.

Diet pills are medicines and should only be used under medical advice and obtained by prescription from your own doctor. They contain some very powerful chemicals and if misused are potentially lethal. See the story below about Caroline:

Diet supplements are still made up from laboratory-produced chemicals and can also still be potentially very powerful. Because they are classed as supplements they do not come under the same legislation and control as prescription drugs but are treated more as foods. Still controlled by the Federal Authorities in the US and government agencies in the UK, Europe and Australia.

Herbal remedies are 100% natural, or the only ones you should consider touching should be! They are also classed as Foods and controlled in the same manner by government authorities.

Personally I had great success using Traditional Chinese Herbal blends and as far as I am concerned they probably saved me from an early death. (To get the full story, fill in the request form in the side bar or below for my How I Cheated My Way To Losing 46 Pounds In 6 Months & 8 Days)

I am also a little paranoid about taking any medicines that I don’t have to. I have to be tied down and force-fed a paracetamol when I have a headache!

Jasmine tells me I’m a big whoos (how do you spell that?) but I always feel that chemicals going into the body have got to be having a side effect somewhere. I mean if they need a prescription it must be because they are potentially dangerous, right?

Anyway, as if to prove my point the following story highlights the dangers graphically.

Singer Caroline Duffy, 28, had a lucky escape when diet pills made her body shut down. Despite being aware of the dangers, women desperate to lose weight are buying prescription drugs online without or against medical advice.

When she was 18 she failed an audition to join a girl group and then overheard an interviewer say it was because she was overweight.

Caroline, from Tyne & Wear in the North East of England, said “Over the next five years I tried numerous diets but none of them gave me the results I craved.”

“Then, at 23, I read a magazine article about Britney Spears. It said a pot of Zantrex-3 diet pills had fallen out of her handbag as she walked through Heathrow airport.”

“I dropped the magazine and rushed to my computer. The official site selling the drugs promised rapid, sustained weight loss and extreme energy, with 546 per cent more weight loss than other leading brands.”

“Perfect — weight loss with no dieting or exercise. One batch of 120 tablets cost £90. I immediately typed in my bank details and bought one packet.”

“I decided not to tell my family and friends about the pills. I’d wait until the weight dropped off.”

“When they arrived I read the instructions carefully and took four of the large blue tablets a day. Within a week, I noticed they were working. My appetite had shrunk. I went from devouring breakfast and two hearty meals to one slice of toast a day. Soon I wasn’t hungry at all and didn’t need the toast.”

“I was full of energy, but felt a bit hyper. My energy levels would be sky-high after taking the pills, but plummet hours later.”

“My hands were shaky and I suffered severe heart palpitations every day.”

“I was worried, but I expected some side-effects. The results would be worth it.”

“But the weight wasn’t exactly falling off. I fluctuated between a normal size 12 and a slightly slimmer ten — not the dramatic loss I’d expected.”

Then two weeks after she started taking the pills, the chemicals they contained started hitting back.

Caroline said “I started to burn up. I looked at my arms and saw I was covered in bright red blotches and my whole body was on fire. But my hands and feet were icy cold.”

“Within minutes I was rushed to hospital. My heart was pounding furiously and I felt dizzy and nauseous.”

“The consultant explained the drugs had stopped me eating — but also drastically starved my body of fuel.”

“It was shutting down to survive. All the blood was being pumped to my vital organs and away from my hands and feet.”

“The doctor said, ‘If you had left it a few more days we’d have had to amputate your hands and feet. You could have died.’”

Now there are many lessons to be learned here, but first and foremost, don’t take prescription drugs unless your own doctor has prescribed them.

Personally, as I said before, I prefer natural herbal remedies. Traditional Chinese Medicine has been used for literally thousands of years on many millions of people without adverse side effects. No clinical test in the world can compete with that as a stamp of approval on their quality, effectiveness and safety.

The longevity of life in the Far East and their quality of life in terms of health and fitness puts us to shame in the west.

But in the end we are all old enough and big enough and have to take responsibility for our own actions. Just make sure you get as much information as possible first before making your own decision.

My story and how Traditional Chinese Herbs played their part in my dramatic weight loss can be requested below. Just fill in the request form and see for yourself.