In the past few years many different supplements for weight loss have been released. Today there are so many varietes that you propably don’t know what is what and most importantly, what should you buy. I have ran in to this problem many times when I first had trouble deciding which active ingredients should I choose. Then I took the time to find out almost all the products which contained the active ingredient in question. And finally I was overwhelmed with the supply and got confused. This is something that usually happens when you have health symptoms and remedies are what you want to find.
Diet supplements are natural products which are normally made from different plant or root extracts. They contain a little of the active ingredients. This is concidered as the “safer way” by many dieters since it is all natural and it comes from the nature. Something that people forget is that there are many compounds in the nature that “naturally” exist that are poisonous and even lethal to human even in very small amounts. Not that these products would contain such amounts of poisonous substances, but you do not actually know completely what is inside those natural products. And over time the compounds may accumulate in your fat tissue could relate in to health problems. Synthetic products which have been produced in the laboratories have been tested with multiple clinical trials and before that with animal testing to ensure the safety for human consumption.
Medical products such as Xenical have been sold with a prescription for a long time. It contains orlistat which is basically an efficent fat binder. It binds to the dietary fat and prevents one third of the fat eaten from being properly digested and absorbed. So your body will result in one third less calories from the fat eaten. It works differently from the traditional diet pills which work by increasing your metabolism through different pathways and make your body burn more resting calories. Xenical has been shown to be an effective drug and a safe one, so FDA has approved orlistat to be sold in over-the-counter medicins. Alli is the first diet pill sold over-the-counter that contains orlistat. So you no longer need to go see your doctor for a prescription.
Fat binders can be also found in natural supplements and usually they come in the form of some fiber extracted from a relatively rare plant. One of those fibers is Opuntia Ficus Indica which is a realtively well know diet pill. It has also been widely in use for some time but all in all it is still what I would consider a new product. The effects of natural remedies are usually much weaker than those of synthetic compounds that have been specifically developed for the purpose, and diet pills make no difference. The strenght of Opuntia Ficus Indica is a percentage of Allies strenght. Besides just fat binders there are other classes of diet supplements also. Such as carbohydrate binders and thermogenic.
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