An Age of Magic

The diet-pill minefield

I have a friend who has been trying to shift a couple of stone in weight for almost a year and I have seen her try just about everything and every method that is on offer. I even did a whole lot of online searches when she wanted to resort to diet pills – boy was that an eye-opener!

One of the most popular, but hard to get, formulations is a drug called ephedra - you cannot get it as easily as most other pills but those who take it say it really works. It burns fuel. She has just come off that new drug, Alli, after being extremely disappointed with it. It works by stopping you from absorbing fat in your food – but in order for it to work you have eat fat…which she did but still lost no weight at all.

I think if you are going to resort to a diet pill like the first one mentioned you would be best with one of those that speeds up the metabolism and burns the fat rather than blocks it. But one word of warning – they are not for people with high blood pressure.

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