Are Herbal Diet Pills Right For You?

In college I took some herbal diet pills on a whim. I didn’t eat anything for nearly two days. Also, I didn’t get much sleep. Anything that makes you that wired and kills your appetite that completely can’t be good for you.

While they were ‘ephedra free’ and were supposedly natural and safe, I don’t think I had ever felt so polluted and ill in my life. A year later I learned that the FDA had banned the same herbal diet pills I had taken. I have to wonder what it was I had put in my body.

Herbal diet pills are very 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 just about anything can be in an herbal diet pill. ‘Herbs’ have a loophole in the FDA system. 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 drugs. The difference between medicinal herbs and drugs is really quite vague anyway, as most drugs themselves come from a kind of plant or herb.

Often the ‘herbal’ classification for these pills don’t last very long. The FDA eventually calls these herbs a drug and brings scientists to evaluate it. When this happens a herbal diet pills often either become available only by prescription or are banned completely. If you look around a little from site to site selling herbal diet pills it will become clear that the makers of these things are all too familiar with the FDA.

Many of these sites even use this to their advantage. They will say things like ‘buy it now before the FDA bans it! You have to ask yourself this, if the FDA is going to ban a herbal diet pill you’re interested in, should you be taking it.

Anyway, don’t be fooled by the word ‘herbal’ in a herbal diet pill. I would trust a regular diet pill that is FDA approved a lot more than some herbal diet pill concoction that has who knows what in it. The words herbal and natural are marketing ploys. Never be confused by the word safe unless there’s been some type of testing to prove it.

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