Over Stimulated By Natural Weight Loss Pills

I took a few herbal diet pills in college once on a whim, and I did not eat anything for a couple of days afterwards. I also did not really get much sleep either. Anything that makes you wired like that and kills your appetite so completely just is not good for you. Health food store 'natural' diet pills are big business. But some claims about the supposed weight loss benefits of 'natural' appetite suppressants are very misleading. First, there is very little evidence that these herbal diet pills help you to reduce your weight. Second, many of these herbal diet supplements are amphetamine-type stimulants, which can over-stimulate the nervous system, causing ill-health and nasty side-effects. Many supplements contain ephedra that is known serious side effects. The pills I took were supposedly 'ephedra free' and were supposedly totally natural and safe, I do not think I ever felt so befouled and ill in my life. A year later I discovered that the FDA had banned the same herbal diet pills I had taken, and now I wonder what it was I had put in my body. Herbal diet pills are extremely popular these days as an alternative to more traditional methods of weight loss like diet and exercise. Herbal treatments in general are very trendy today, which I find a little worrisome for several reasons. First of all, anything can be in an herbal diet pill. 'Herbs' are a kind of loophole in the United States FDA system, as they are not classified as drugs and therefore don't have the rigorous standards for testing and safety that drugs normally get. Make no mistake about it though, herbs can be every bit as potent and harmful as illegal narcotics. The difference between medicinal herbs and drugs is really quite vague anyway, as most perscription drugs themselves come from a kind of plant or herb. Typically, 'herbal' classification is short lived; the FDA eventually calls it a drug and brings in the scientists. When that happens herbal diet pills often either become available only by prescription or are banned completely. Snooping around a little from site to site selling herbal diet pills, it is clear that the herbal pill manufactures are all too familiar with the FDA. Many sites even use it to their advantage saying things to the effect of 'buy it now before the FDA bans it!'. You have to ask yourself, if the FDA will eventually ban the herbal diet pill you're interested in, should you be taking it at all? Don't be fooled by the word 'herbal' in an herbal diet pill. It is better to trust a regular diet pill that is FDA approved a lot more than some herbal diet pill potion with it's unregulated and monitored contents. The words herbal and natural are marketing misrepresentations and should never be confused with the word safe unless there has been FDA testing to prove it.