When choosing a diet pill, the first thing that you should look at are the ingredients. While this may sound obvious, you would be surprised how many people seem to ignore this step. The following are some guidelines to use when researching diet pill ingredients so that you can evaluate the potential effectiveness of a supplement before you purchase.
First of all, when analyzing an ingredient that's contained in a diet pill, make sure that you get your information from credible and reputable sources. You certainly don't want to take the pill companies' word for it; they are the ones trying make money off of you purchasing their product and will naturally be very biased. Always confirm their claims by doing your own research. Some great sources for unbiased clinical research and information can be found at such places as PubMed.gov, Wikipedia, and peer-reviewed and published medical journals.
One common trick that diet pills will use is to cite a clinical study of an ingredient, but try to make it appear as though it was a study on their product itself. Don't get me wrong, it's great when they cite research on ingredients as long as they disclose that the research is actually on the ingredient in the diet pill. Also, many will 'quote' research but will give no reference to verify that the study was legitimate or that it even happened. Essentially if they don't clearly reference the study in a way that you can find it yourself, you shouldn't believe anything that they've said.
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.
Once you have verified that a certain ingredient has been proven to cause weight loss, your research isn't over there. You must also verify that the amount of the ingredient used in the diet pill is up to par with what the clinical studies have shown to be effective. Too often diet pills will use 'Proprietary Blends' that hide the amounts of the ingredients.
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.
In conclusion, the only that really determines the effectiveness of the diet pill is what the pill is made of: the ingredients. Many people base their purchasing decisions on how good the infomercial was or before and after photos that are usually fake. Be smarter in your choices and do some good research before you spend your hard earned money. If you're going to spend it, it might as well be on something that will do what it's supposed to. - 15255
First of all, when analyzing an ingredient that's contained in a diet pill, make sure that you get your information from credible and reputable sources. You certainly don't want to take the pill companies' word for it; they are the ones trying make money off of you purchasing their product and will naturally be very biased. Always confirm their claims by doing your own research. Some great sources for unbiased clinical research and information can be found at such places as PubMed.gov, Wikipedia, and peer-reviewed and published medical journals.
One common trick that diet pills will use is to cite a clinical study of an ingredient, but try to make it appear as though it was a study on their product itself. Don't get me wrong, it's great when they cite research on ingredients as long as they disclose that the research is actually on the ingredient in the diet pill. Also, many will 'quote' research but will give no reference to verify that the study was legitimate or that it even happened. Essentially if they don't clearly reference the study in a way that you can find it yourself, you shouldn't believe anything that they've said.
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.
Once you have verified that a certain ingredient has been proven to cause weight loss, your research isn't over there. You must also verify that the amount of the ingredient used in the diet pill is up to par with what the clinical studies have shown to be effective. Too often diet pills will use 'Proprietary Blends' that hide the amounts of the ingredients.
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.
In conclusion, the only that really determines the effectiveness of the diet pill is what the pill is made of: the ingredients. Many people base their purchasing decisions on how good the infomercial was or before and after photos that are usually fake. Be smarter in your choices and do some good research before you spend your hard earned money. If you're going to spend it, it might as well be on something that will do what it's supposed to. - 15255
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