Saturday, September 15, 2007

Have you done your home work?

You are unhappy with your weight; you are thinking to loose some of it. Or may be you are granted to loose up to 20 pound in a few days. Well you are not alone 65% of American adults are on your side too.

As they say desperate needs leads to desperate measures. The need of losing weight quickly with over –the –counter weight loss supplements is usually hard to pass. Let’s face it; weight losses pills are popular because they can help people to loss weight. To day there are more than 300 weight loss products available on the market according to consumers health digest. So it is very difficult to choose the right one. Mostly when all of them granted you for “y” amount of weight lose over “x” amount of time.

The truth is most of them do not rich to there claim. This means before choosing a weight loss product consumer has to do a care full research. If you are one of those consumers my question to you is “have you done you home work?”

One of the most popular diet pill that is advertised widely is “Lipocerin.” According to the web site, this diet pill increase metabolism and energy level using a bland of natural ingredients. On the other hand the web site did not list all the ingredients which lead to question the product.


Lipocerin is a non prescription weight loss pill and one of the money pills that claims to contain the herbal ingredient Hoodia Gordonii. The manufactures state that this ingredient helps “to think less and less about food and trick [brain] in to thinking that you are not hungry.” Although to day there is no scientific proof for this claim. Moreover real Hoodia is listed as one of endangered species almost to the point it is hard to get. Then isn’t surprising when an inexpensive over-the -counter pill to contain this endangered species.


In addition, the other ingredient that is advertised to be present is chromium picolinate. This product helps to boost metabolism. Which means it can help the body to handle sugar and fat according to the web site.


A study from Dartmouth collage found that this substance could damage the genetic material in hamster cell. Also in a study done by university of Alabama in 1999, a research found that when this substances is taken in combination with ascorbic aid in vitamin c, the chromium picolinate may cause DNA damage, and possibly lead to cancer.


On contrary many people has testified that chromium picolinate works good. (www.lipocerin.com) But even if there is a luck of strong evidences to support the risks associated with chromium picolinate the willingness to talk the risk is up to you!!!

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