Herbal Weight Loss Pills
Posted by Liz Delacruz
Many people want to become healthy and lose weight but sometimes hearing about all these diet plans and diet pills can be quite daunting. Which are healthy, which won’t produce many side effects and what is effective.
On your trip to the drug, department or health food stores, you can see a plethora of over-the-counter herbal weight loss pills. Many which once contained ephedra, guarana, St. John’s Wart and Senna. Many that are promoted to burn fat by increasing metabolism and some promote as effective in weight loss.
But lately there are some cons to these supplements or pills because physicians due to their side effects do not advise them. We will take a look at a variety of herbal weight loss pills and give you information on their claims and also some of their side effects. But one thing to remember is that many of these herbal weight loss pills is that they haven’t been in the market all that long and a lot of them do not have long studies done on test subjects or animals, thus the long-term effects are not know.
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All About Hoodia Weight Loss Pills
Posted by Liz Delacruz
We currently live in a society where obesity and being overweight will probably become an epidemic. And with so many people searching for a “magic-pill” of wanting to find pills that will just make people lose all their weight quickly is just a wearing rose colored glasses.
Lately there has been a lot of talk about the popularity of diet pills known as hoodia. Hoodia comes from a cactus-like plant that grows in semi-deserts in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Angola. The notion comes from claims that the San Bushmen in the Kalahari desert used hoodia for thousands of years to ward off hunger when they were warding off their hunger and thirst during long hunting trips. According to legend, by cutting of the stem of the plant, they would eat it.
In 1937, a Dutch anthropologist studying the San Bushmen noticed that they used hoodia gordonii to suppress their appetite and sure enough, studies were being done on animals which shown that many lab animals lost weight after consuming hoodia gordonii. Read the rest of this entry »