Weight Loss Miracle Cures: Hindsight vs. Foresight
Every day, dozens of new sites offering get-thin soon fixes crop up on the internet. Our society has become so obsessed with being thin and beautiful that we have started to experiment with drugs and other treatments that endanger our physical, emotional and mental health.
Recently there have been reports regarding a new drug of choice for Hollywood celebrities called Clenbuterol which purportedly helps people lose weight much faster and more drastically. Clenbuterol or Clen is also used as asthma treatment for horses. Side effects include muscle gain and only temporary weight loss. It’s a quick fix but the backlash is immense. It is also used in other countries to help cows gain weight.
Why do people insist on using drugs that offer only temporary relief from their problems yet yield permanent damage that can follow them around for their entire lives? This is a question that is continually asked by those who advocate strongly against prescription weight loss pills and so-called dietary supplements.
Lose weight, not your life!
There are safer ways to lose weight. A healthy well-rounded diet, rounds of modulated exercise, vegetarianism. There are countless options out there that are safer and less liable to send you into an early grave.
A healthy, balanced diet is more than just following the recommendations on the food pyramid for every day meals. It’s a pyramid for a reason. It’s about planning out portions and coming up with meals that fulfill caloric and energy needs. Compute your required daily calorie intake and if you need to lose weight just subtract 300-500 calories from it per day. Do improve your diet.
What to Do To Lose Weight?
Cardio exercises can help a body burn fat and excess glucose. It also improves physical endurance and produces endorphins which not only makes you happy, it also acts as a natural painkiller. If there is one tried and tested method that successfully results in weight loss, exercise would be it. Brisk walking, for example, can burn up to 400 calories per session. Do try exercise.
A vegetarian diet is a good way to stay healthy while attempting to lose weight. Vegetarians generally take in less calories than those who eat meat and a balanced vegetarian diet can help you lose weight even without exercise. This is only if the vegetarian diet that you try is well-balanced and servings also need to be controlled. A person who overindulges will never be healthy. Do try vegetarianism.
What to avoid
It would be prudent to avoid food supplements and diet pills. Remember that the FDA is coming out with new advisories regularly and just because the ingredients in your diet pill haven’t made it to the banned list yet, there’s no guarantee that they won’t occupy a spot there in the future.
Organic or not, medication is also not meant to be taken in regularly for a reason other than what it was originally meant for. Topomax, a drug for epilepsy causes weight loss but when taken in smaller doses by those who want to lose weight, going cold turkey can cause seizures thereby tying you to the drug for your whole life.
Dietary supplements need to be taken under careful doctor supervision because they are not required to undergo FDA testing before being released into the market. As they say, “Hindsight explains the injury that Foresight would have prevented.”
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