South Beach Diet & Other Weight Loss

Art Gib asked:


Diet pills have been on the market for more than 10 years and have helped countless people to lose the extra weight they have fought to lose for so long. When choosing the one that is right for you, there are two main choices available to people who are overweight: the prescription pill and the over the counter pill. Both offer a unique way to fight the battle of the bulge.

The Prescription Diet Pill

Prescription weight-loss pills are often aimed at the sector of the population defined as obese or morbidly obese. These are typically strong fat blockers and strong hunger reducers and thus should not be used by those who only have a couple of pounds to lose to fit into that perfect outfit.

The prescription diet pill market has recently moved into the over the counter market with the FDA approval of Alli for use without a prescription. Alli works within the digestive system to block the fat from being absorbed by the body. On average, about 25% of the total fat consumed throughout the day is blocked and excreted from the body.

When using Alli, in either prescription or over the counter form, it is important to reduce the amount of fat eaten at each meal. According to the Alli guidelines, no meal should contain more than 20 to 25 grams of fat. Any more and the body will suffer from the gastrointestinal side effects associated with the medication, including gas, bloating and loose stools.

The Over the Counter Diet Pill

The over the counter weight-loss pill is a huge money maker in the retail setting. People from all walks of life use these pills for energy, hunger reduction and to increase metabolism. The supplemental forms of these kind of dietary supplement are not regulated or approved by the FDA.

When choosing to use an over the counter supplement, it is important to discuss your choice with your physician as the supplement’s ingredients may interact with a prescription medication you are currently taking.

Weight loss supplements are produced in order to help people move from being overweight to being of healthy weight. With the help of dietary supplements, people all over the world are reducing their chance of heart attack, stroke and adult onset diabetes.

It is important to understand the effects of the weight-loss pill on the body and to take the recommended dosage for both prescription diet pills and over the counter diet pill varieties.

Dallas Dougan asked:


There’s a new kind of diet pill available that works by basically putting you on a low carb diet, but without forcing you to give up goodies like french fries and pancakes. It’s called a “carb blocker,” and it works by blocking the digestion of the carbohydrates in the food you eat. Seeing as how giving up things is what people generally think of when they think of dieting, and giving up carbs is pretty much what a low carb diet is all about, this little diet pill could be a small wonder.

It’s actually a pretty simple recipe that makes this impressive effect possible. It’s a simple, natural compound that is extracted from white kidney beans called “phaseolamin.” What it does is to interfere with the stomach enzyme that breaks down starches into simple sugars, so that the carbs that you eat are never absorbed into your bloodstream. Of course, if they’re not absorbed, they can never be stored as fat! And if they’re not stored as fat, then you get skinny! It’s a good deal.

As far as diet pills go, phaseolamin has been tested fairly extensively. Remember, this is a natural compound extracted from kidney beans, so there are millenia of epidemiological data to say that small doses are safe. And, from the research that has been done over the last few decades, it appears that larger doses are also perfectly safe. Taking carb blockers appears to be just as safe for you as eating beans.

There is no evidence that carb blockers interfere with the absorption of other nutrients, and it is probably unlikely given that no major nutrients that I know of are ever bound up in the starchy parts of your food. Typically important nutrients are bound to fats and proteins, which you will still be absorbing with no trouble while taking carb blockers. All the same, if you’re going to use carb blockers over a very long period of time it couldn’t hurt to have your doctor check your nutrient levels periodically to make sure that everything is alright.

One last thing you should know is that carb blockers don’t have any effect on the absorption of sugar, so any sweet treats you eat will still interfere with your diet. If you eat a cake, for example, your will still absorb all the sugar from the frosting even though you are blocking out the carbs from the flour.

Finally, carb blockers are not perfect; they don’t block 100% of the carbs you eat. The actual effectiveness appears to be about 60%, which is still pretty good! Let’s take a look at what that means. It means that if you were eating 100 grams of carbohydrate per day, which is pretty low compared to the average American diet but not quite low enough to really be “low carb,” these carb blockers would pull you down to just 40 carbs per day. Forty carbs a day is definitely a very solid low carb diet that would ordinarily be quite restrictive. So you can see that carb blockers are not a total replacement for a low carb diet, but they are fantastic in combination with a restricted-carbohydrate diet.

Eugene Gray asked:


ght Tied to Extensive Health Problems Weight-Related Health Problems

It’s nothing new to know that excess weight is often accompanied by health problems, such as type 2 diabetes or heart disease. But what if I tell you that higher BMI was tied to 37 out of 41 health conditions for women and 29 out of 41 for men.

For women, morbid obesity (defined as a BMI of 35 or greater) was shown to be associated with a more than 12-fold risk of diabetes, an almost 12-fold risk of knee replacement, a sixfold risk of heart failure, a fivefold risk of high blood pressure and gallbladder removal, and a fourfold risk of potentially life-threatening clots to the lungs, chronic fatigue/lack of energy, and insomnia.

Morbidly obese men had a similar list. With the strongest associations seen in diabetes (eightfold risk), knee replacement (sixfold), high blood pressure (sixfold), heart failure (fourfold), and fatigue and lack of energy and insomnia (fourfold).

Deathly facts. Obesity is one of the leading preventable causes of death.

Causes Of Obesity

Most researchers agree that a combination of excessive calorie consumption and a sedentary lifestyle are the primary causes of obesity. In a minority of cases, increased food consumption can be attributed to genetic, medical, or psychiatric illness. The sad fact, the vicious circle of the obesity is that obese people are less active than those of normal weight and they eat more - so, basically, they are gaining even more weight just because they already have extra weight.

 

Weight Loss or Weight Management Bariatric or Weight Loss Surgery

Basically weight loss surgery goes three possible ways: reducing the volume of the stomach (makes you feel satiation faster, thus you eat less than usual); reducing the length of bowel (reduces food absorption, thus you eat as usual but food is absorbed in lesser amounts than previously); liposuction (as it only removes the symptoms but not the cause of extra weight, it’s a temporary solution - till the next liposuction)

Surgery is always an emergency solution and it is the unsafest way to lose weight - too big is the risk of complications. Hey, it’s actually cutting an alive body - how can this be possibly good?

Dieting and Physical Exercise

As it always was and still is, the main but not the only ways to lose weight are dieting and physical exercise. If combined, they produce even more satisfactory results.

Weight-loss diets restricts the intake of specific foods, or food in general, to reduce body weight. Diets to promote weight loss are generally divided into four categories: low-fat, low-carbohydrate, low-calorie, and very low calorie. A meta-analysis found no difference between the main diet types, i.e. they give very similar quantitative and qualitative results. But that’s statistically, in general, and in real life what works to reduce body weight for one person will not necessarily work for another, due to metabolic differences and lifestyle factors.

Physical exercise is an important complement to dieting in securing weight loss, i.e. wanna keep good results after dieting and not gain weight again - work out. The advice is that you go for both aerobic and anaerobic exercise as this would increase the basal metabolic rate (BMR) for some time after the workout. This leads to an additional caloric loss.

Though this two methods have the least negative outcome (well, I’d even put it so that dieting and exercise almost always have positive results with less or no harm to your health), still there is one major problem associated with this type of weight loss therapy. It requires the change of lifestyle - radical change. You see, there’s probably no normal person on the Earth who loves ‘radical’ changes in their life and lifestyle.

 

Lose weight with minor or no changes to lifestyle? Is it anyhow possible? Medications - so-called ‘diet pills’ or ‘anti-obesity’ drugs.

These drugs alter either appetite or metabolism. One thing you should remember about diet pills is that it is recommended that anti-obesity drugs only be prescribed for obesity where it is hoped that the benefits of the treatment outweigh its risks.

There are two commonly prescribed medications for obesity. One is Orlistat, which reduces intestinal fat absorption by inhibiting pancreatic lipase; the other is Sibutramine, which is a specific inhibitor of the neurotransmitters norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine in the brain (very similar to some anti-depressants ), therefore decreasing appetite.

Acomplia (Rimonabant) is the third type of anti-obesity drug, introduced by French pharmaceutical company ‘Sanofi-Aventis’. It also reduces the appetite, but the mechanism is different from that of Sibutramine. Acomplia obesity combating drug blocks cannabinoid (CB1) receptors which can be found in the brain, liver and muscle. Funny to know, it effects the same receptors in brain which cause hunger in those who smoked cannabis Rimonabant (Acomplia) is the first selective CB1 receptor blocker to be approved for use anywhere in the world.

If to compare the weight loss effect of these three anti-obesity drugs over the longer term, average weight loss on Orlistat is 2.9 kg, Sibutramine is 4.2 kg and Rimonabant (Acomplia) is 4.7 kg. Orlistat and Rimonabant lead to a reduced incidence of diabetes.

Acomplia diet pills not only cause weight loss, but prevent or reverse the metabolic effects of obesity, such as insulin resistance and hyperlipidemia, and may also decrease the tendency to abuse substances such as alcohol and tobacco.

Looks like acomplia does the best. All of the mentioned medications and their derivatives have some potential side effects which are often associated with their mechanism of action, and thus those diet-pills are available as prescription anti-obesity drugs. Sure, you can buy Acomplia and all kinds of other diet drugs without prescription on the Internet but you’d better consult your doctor to make a weighted decision.

Solution - Lose Weight In A Combined Way

Choose some mild diet, work out with pleasure, assist yourself with Acomplia to maximize the effect. Remember that intentional weight loss of any amount is associated with a 20% reduction in all-cause mortality.