How Diet Pills Work

by: Healthy Living Supplements LLC

Your weight is determined by the rate at which you store energy from the food that you eat, and the rate at which you use that energy.  Or put another way, it is the amount of calories you put into your body versus the amount of calories you burn from your body that determines whether you gain or lose weight.  So since the objective of diet pills is to help you lose weight, they need to do two primary things: help you decrease the amount of calories that you put into your body and increase the amount of calories that you burn.

Kinds Of Diet Pills

There are basically two kinds of diet pills.  Prescription diet pills require a doctor’s prescription and are regulated in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  Non-prescription diet pills do not require a doctor’s prescription and are referred to as dietary supplements and are considered food products by the FDA rather than drugs.  Regardless of which kind of diet pill you are considering they all either help you eat less by suppressing your appetite or burn more calories by increasing your metabolism.  Prescription drugs are generally more dangerous and therefore require a doctor’s supervision and are more expensive.  At Healthy Living Supplements LLC we only deal in dietary supplements, which contain natural ingredients instead of the typical artificial chemical compounds found in most prescription diet pill drugs.

Dietary Supplement Diet Pills

So how do diet pills work?  We are going to answer this from a layman’s perspective rather than a medical doctor’s perspective or that of a chemist.

As an appetite suppressant, diet pills work by fooling your brain into telling you that you are full.  This can be done by affecting the hypothalamus, which is a master gland located in the brain just above the brain stem.  Hoodia Gordonii is a primary example of a diet pill ingredient that works this way.

             Diet Pill Affects Hypothalamus                  

Other ingredients work as appetite suppressants by filling your stomach or colon with low or no calorie fiber and fiber-like substances.  The objective here is to give you an actual fullness feeling so that you will stop eating.

The second major form of ingredient in diet pills works by increasing your metabolism.  By increasing your metabolism you burn calories faster and thus expend more energy than you otherwise would.  If you don’t take in more calories by eating more, you will lose weight or at least not gain as much as you otherwise would.  There are variations on this theme that work by slowing fat creation from excess calories or by actually blocking the absorption of fat from the foods that you eat into your body systems.

Some of these metabolism related ingredients can be dangerous or have unwanted side affects.  One such ingredient is Ephedra.  This is an herb that produces a powerful stimulant affect that helps in weight loss but also has the unwanted side effect of increasing strokes and heart attacks.  The FDA removed it from the dietary supplement market in 2003 but after a number of court challenges it is now allowed but at significantly reduced levels than previously used.

Lastly, there is a class of diet pill ingredients that work to increase your energy levels and improve your overall mood and sense of well being.  Research continues to be conducted on the exact chemical reactions produced by these natural ingredients but some of them have proved to be effective in weight loss programs without having any undesirable side affects.

In summary, there are hundreds of different weight loss ingredients used in diet pills, diet capsules, diet patches, and diet powers.  Some are more effective than others.  Some work better in combination than others do.  We at Healthy Living Supplements LLC have worked with the best chemists and formulators in the world to select the 6 best safe all-natural diet related ingredients to produce the blockbuster diet pill The Ultimate Diet Formula ™.

 

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About The Author:  Healthy Living Supplements LLC is a dietary supplement company committed to providing consumers with the most effective high quality scientifically advanced formulas available today.  Through their Ultimate Healthy Living newsletter and articles like this, their customers receive the most timely, accurate, and up-to-date information on healthy living and nutritional supplements.  They are dedicated to supporting healthy living with natural non-prescription products that promote the well-being, youthful appearance, and long life of their customers while helping them to look, feel and be their healthiest best.  Their website is located at Healthy Living Supplements™ | The Ultimate in Quality Dietary Supplements and their newest product can also be found at The Ultimate Diet Formula ™ Weight Loss Diet Pill.