| Please Don't Use Pills |
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angelikmayhem
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Posted: 4 Jul 2012 08:46 pm |
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So, for what it's worth, I would encourage anyone who is considering using pills to lose weight to evaluate that thought using the who, what, when, where, how, and why method.
Who is providing these pills? Is it some moron who bought a television commercial spot at 3am for $20? Is it some quack doctor who finished bottom of his class and is getting kickbacks from the company that makes them? Is it a pharmaceutical company that just happens to have other pills for when these pills make you sick?
What are you taking? Do you even know? It's clear that they screw with your body's chemistry, but what do they do? Are they appetite suppressants that destroy the leptin in your body? Are they blockers that clog up the receptors in your body preventing absorption of fats or carbohydrates -- two things your body needs? Or is it more like Fen-phen, anorectics that cause fatal pulmonary hypertension?
When did they clear the FDA? Who on the FDA also sits on the board of the company that makes them? Or are they a witches brew of worthless weeds that stain your poo green but don't actually do anything for you.
Where did you hear about them? Did you hear about them from someone who used them or someone who was making a profit from them? Did you hear it from your own doctor or from a doctor on a TV commercial? Did you hear it from a friend or from a mysterious blog posting from a "mom" in "Wichita" who had great results.
How do you know they're safe? Are there reports? Scientific studies? News reports? List of ingredients? Have you looked to see what these ingredients actually are?
Why are you taking them? This is the big one. It's for one of three reasons:
- You've decided that giving money to the CEO of ABC, Inc. until you're DOA is something that will make you happy and complete.
- You've decided that cavemen used to sell each other ground-up packets of ginseng and other "Chinese" herbs from Wisconsin to cure obesity
- You've never given it some thought and you just heard that instead of learning why you're obese and saying no to cheesecake, you'd just pop a pill for the easy way out
No matter what the reason, I want you to know that you're wrong. Science has proven what causes obesity. Do some research and you'll quickly discover that weight loss is about removing the things from your diet that are making you fat. And even if the pill makes you thin, it won't cure the heart disease or diabetes that come with it.
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