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"The Terrible Truth About Diet Pills and Drugs"
By Dr. Frank B. Smoot, MA, DD
The potentially dangerous side-effects of diet drugs and pills has, fortunately, gotten a great deal of publicity. In the opinion of many healthcare professionals, both prescription and herbal products can be extremely risky.
I'm not a medical doctor, but my education and years of experience have taught me plenty about diet drugs. I also keep current with journals, textbooks, and magazines, and I can tell you that I have yet to see a single article or study that has anything positive to say about the overall effects of diet drugs or pills.
Yes, some drugs produce losses in body weight. But this loss consists largely of water. And many diet pills -- be they prescription or "natural" -- have dangerous side effects as well. Let's remember that, just because a substance is "natural," doesn't mean it's healthy. Many plant and animal substances are toxic to humans, and some are lethal. (The poison on the tips of Amazon tribes' blowgun darts is 100% natural.)
ANY Diet Pill Can Have Unhealthy Side Effects
If you follow your doctor's prescription perfectly, your health may not be at risk. But many people don't follow doctors' orders very well. And even doctors may not get all the "downside" information from the drug companies. Diet pills will also cost you $40-$60 a month until you run out of money, or your doctor says you've had enough.
And remember, the weight-reducing effects of diet pills tends to disappear as soon as you stop taking them. In fact, you typically gain back more weight than you lost.
That's because many diet pills only suppress hunger, which is almost never the real reason we overeat (more about that later). So even when your physical hunger is satisfied, all of the other reasons for excess eating (especially the psychological and emotional ones) are still there -- waiting to bust your diet!
All diet pills can really offer you is a quick, expensive, possibly dangerous, and ultimately very frustrating way to lose a few pounds...temporarily.
Wouldn't it be much smarter to use an approach that leads to safe, effective and permanent weight control, without any negative health consequences? Of course it would.
Thanks to recent research breakthroughs, we can now do that. And they've come not a moment too soon, since it's clear that we're not going to get any useful solutions from the Diet Industry. So it becomes our own responsibility to find out the truth.
One truth you may not be aware of is this:
You Didn't Fail At Your Diet
The Diet Industry Failed You!
Please, please let that statement sink in. If you have ever felt even a single moment of guilt, or blame, or shame because you couldn't "stick to your diet," you really need to hear this.
It wasn't your fault! You can't possibly lose weight by doing what doesn't work. Remember, we now spend more than $15 billion a year on diets and related weight loss products -- only to rewarded with a pathetic 4% success rate!
Of course, it's not just the Diet Industry that promotes weight loss misinformation. They're just the easiest group to identify. The TV Fitness Industry is just as much a part of the problem, glitzy infomercials, wild-eyed claims, and all.
It's a fact that nine out of ten of the machines we buy are seldom used after the first few weeks. Most of them soon become dust catchers whose ultimate destiny is a yard sale.
Clearly, it's time for a different approach.
Yours in total health,
Dr. Frank
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