Thursday, June 5, 2008

Weight Loss Pills


Why weight loss pills or the so called best weight loss pills and fat burner pills into existence is generally because the inhabitants of the world are always finding ways to make them look good. There is absolutely no culture or civilization who fancy being fat or pudgy as pleasing to the eye. Any reason why? Mainly because when you’re totally beyond the average weight, either you’re under some hereditary curse or you’re just a plain glutton and gluttony for a fact is considered one of the seven deadly sins. Really, whoever thought of eating too much is immoral should go check a shrink. We’re humans for God’s sake and what separates us from the heavenly entities other than the regular intake of vices is that we get to enjoy the pleasures of this world. Eating is a necessity by the way. It becomes a pleasure only by how the mind exercises it and mainly just when we overdo it.

History has it that weight loss pills have already existed during the 50’s and the 60’s for the purpose of speeding up the cycle of energy for the body. The people back then became so addictive to it that the doctors just had to stop prescribing it. The accursed pills were later replaced by regular diet and exercise. But at the dawn of the 70’s they returned. A new drug by the name fenfluramine or also known in the market as Pondimin, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for losing weight. It was followed by dexflenfluramine or Redux in the late 90’s. Both weight loss pills worked by escalating the serotonin levels of the brain. These are the neurotransmitter connected by improving satiety, hence making everything psychological in the sense of making you feel that you’re already full. The drugs were an international hit but at the entrance of the millennium, reports of users generating heart attacks supposedly because of the pills became a threat. Pondimin and Redux were soon withdrawn from the market. At the moment, physicians are off prescribing Sibutramine or Meridia because so far of all the several weight loss pills in the market, it is the only one currently approved by the FDA.
Why do we actually resort to using medications in order to lose weight? It takes a lot of willpower in order for one person to drop that heaviness that can be really burdening, holistically. Since this is a society where we would rather do things the easy way, such drugs became a welcome banner in order to achieve a goal. There are lots of weight loss pills out there that can cause undesirable side effects even resulting to major lawsuits, while there are some known to heal other diseases as diabetes and over cholesterol. The latter was good news alright but does it actually end there?

Pills as these were the products of companies who neither want to help nor give service to mankind. These are the outcomes of the minds who do not want to make you lose weight but actually for the purpose of emptying your pockets. Understand that weight loss pills generally don’t work without the right diet and exercise. Put that in mind always.