subject: How Safe Diet Pills Can Help You Achieve Your Weight Loss Goals [print this page] What's the hardest thing about trying to lose weight? For most people, the answer is motivation and maintaining discipline. For most people, losing weight is not just about shedding pounds, it's also about becoming fitter and healthier, and changing one's whole lifestyle. Many people who contemplate dieting and who want to lose weight don't factor in just how difficult it can be to change a complete lifestyle to change the food that they eat and the amount of exercise that they do.
For many people, dieting is a stressful and sometimes depressing experience. It can take so long to see real results from your new regime, and the hunger and temptation that come from craving those sweet or fatty foods that you no longer eat lead to a lot of diets ending in failure.
In fact, most diets fail. This is a sad fact, but is a fact none the less. We all start our regimes with eagerness, happy at the prospect of the Adonis or Aphrodite that we are to become after a few short weeks of pain, and yet something happens along the way. Most of us succumb to temptation, or frustration at our seeming lack of progress, or just decide that our health is just not worth the pain and frustration of a dieting and exercise regime.
Another sad fact is the number of successful dieters who achieve their goals, and then within a few short weeks of finishing their diets are back to their old selves. Our bodies are amazing machines, storing excess food we eat as fats for use in lean times. All animals do this, and it is no doubt an excellent survival trick. Unfortunately our evolutionary history hadn't reckoned with fast food, candy, and 24 hour convenience stores, and now many people consume far more calories each day than they can hope to use.
It seems sometimes as though the cards are stacked against us. The idea behind almost all diets is to reduce our energy intake so that the body is forced to tap into these reserves of fat. Unfortunately, our bodies take this a sign of impending danger. Your body cannot know that it needs to use energy from your fat reserves because you haven't eaten a chocolate bar today as far as it is concerned, you may be at risk of starvation. What this means is that your body will try to slow down your metabolic rate as soon as it has recourse to burn your fat reserves. In other words, you'll burn this fat more slowly, making dieting even harder work than it already is.
This is why exercise is so important to achieving your weight loss goals. During exercise, your body needs energy to keep the muscles moving, and your heart beating faster. If you haven't eaten enough to provide instant energy, your body will begin to burn those reserves of fat, and however much it may try to slow your metabolic rate, will have to respond to the calls for energy made by exercising muscles.
While many people have the discipline and desire to lose weight by exercise and a healthy diet alone, many others have recourse to diet pills. Diet pills first became popular in the 1950s. Unfortunately they became a little too popular for some people, as they were made from amphetamines a type of drug that is now illegal because of its addictive nature and dangerous effects upon the body. Amphetamines simply speed up your metabolic rate, causing you to burn calories more quickly. There is no doubt that they were effective as diet pills, unfortunately they were also effective at raising blood pressure, increasing risk of stroke and heart disease, and at causing stress, anxiety and depression.
After amphetamines were banned as diet pills, a substance called Ephedrine became popular for a while. Ephedrine also raises the metabolic rate but is less powerful and less harmful than amphetamines. Nevertheless, it was found that it raises blood pressure and can lead to anxiety and panic attacks. The substance was banned for a time, although it now seems to be legal again.
The search for an effective, natural and above all safe diet pill was on, and so far the cactus-like plant Hoodia gordonii has proved the best (or at least the most popular) candidate. Amazingly, even though it has become the most popular ingredient of natural diet pills in the last twenty years or so, there are still no peer reviewed human trials to confirm whether or not Hoodia gordonii is an effective appetite suppressant for humans all evidence of its effectiveness comes from trials on rats, rabbits and other animals.
It has been shown that a compound produced by Hoodia gordonii called P57 suppresses appetite when injected directly into rat brains, but it is not clear how much Hoodia gordonii would need to be consumed to produce the same effect in rats, let alone in humans. Nevertheless, Hoodia supplements continue to become more popular as natural appetite suppressants, and many dieters swear by them as effective and safe diet pills.
The idea behind using a safe diet pill such as a Hoodia gordonii supplement is to make your dieting and exercise regime easier to cope with and thus more rewarding. By suppressing your appetite, you can resist the cravings and hunger pangs, and find yourself quite satisfied by the amount of food stipulated by your diet. This can make losing weight a lot easier and more rewarding than might otherwise be the case.
How Safe Diet Pills Can Help You Achieve Your Weight Loss Goals
By: Dave Jackson
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