The Most Important Aspect of Diet Pills
After having reviewed over 295 diet pills in the last year, I’ve come to realize that the one and only factor that determines how effective a diet pill is likely to be is the ingredient profile. If the ingredients are proven to work and they is enough of the ingredient included, it’s usually a good bet that you will lose some weight. Without those two things, it’s anyone’s guess.
As mentioned, one of the first things that you need to research before a possible purchase is the ingredients. Now, when you are doing your research, don’t get your information from sites that sell diet pills, ingredients, or the like. Get that information from unbiased sources such Wikipedia, PubMed, or peer-reviewed medical journals. These will provide well documented studies that easily verifiable and legitimate.
Something that you’ll often see when searching for diet pills is that they’ll cite research and twist it so that it looks as though the research was done on their product, when in fact, it was done on an ingredient that the product contains. Now, it’s good that they cited that research, I just wish they would be more upfront about the information that they provide. You should also always be skeptical of claims about studies if they don’t give you the reference for you to verify yourself.
It is very important that you do your own research rather than rely upon the sales copy of the diet pills. There are some ingredients on the market (for example, hoodia gordonii and acai berry) that have become extremely popular lately that have absolutely zero well documented, legitimate scientific studies that support any of their claims to help in weight loss. It’s all a bunch of hype created by the diet pill manufacturers themselves. So don’t believe everything that you hear.
Unfortunately, once you find a diet pill with proven ingredients your work isn’t quite over. Even though a product may have good ingredients, those ingredients must be included in high enough amounts for them to function as well as they did when they were studied in clinical testing. Most diet pills on the market hide the amounts of their ingredients by using ‘Proprietary Blends.’
For example, if an ingredient was shown to cause weight loss in a study that used 600 mg per dosage, in order for the diet pill to have the same effect it would obviously need to have the same amount of the ingredient. But what many companies do is they put a small amount of the ingredient in the pill so that they can advertise that they have the ingredient and then not disclose how much you’re actually getting by takingit. In short, look for diet pills that allow you to verify their effectiveness by listing the amounts of all their ingredients.
Yet another ling to keep an eye out for: extremely long lists of ingredients. Now, I’m not saying that a diet pill is automatically bad if it does have a lot of ingredients. But what I am saying is that some companies will try to fool you into thinking that its the best diet pill because they have a list of ingredients a mile long. Often because they have so many, they aren’t able to include each on in high enough amounts to be effective.
I’m often surprised at how many decisions are made to purchase a diet pill bases solely on how convincing their website is or which celebrity supposedly endorsed it. The only thing that makes a diet pill effective or ineffective is the ingredient profile. Without good ingredients (in the correct amounts), it simply won’t work. So do your research before you purchase. You’ll be glad you did.
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