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The Diet Pill: A Quick Fix?
Modern medicine has given us a number of miracles in a bottle.
We have pills for arthritis, pills for heartburn, pills for
heart trouble. We have pills that will help us wake up in the
morning, pills that will help us digest our afternoon meal, and
pills that will enable us to sleep at night. We live in a
pill-popping society.
Because of the number of medications available, we often turn
to pills to cure what ails us--no matter what our trouble might
be. Whether it's physical or emotional, we may believe that
medication will take care of the problem. As a result, it's not
surprising that a number of us also turn to diet pills in an
effort to control our weight.
There are a number of advantages to using diet pills when
trying to fight fat. To begin with, diet pills are
quick-acting--we may see results after only a little bit of time
has elapsed. As a result, we may gain confidence and lose even
more weight as a result of our success with diet pills. Other
people--friends, relatives, co-workers--may notice our weight
loss and may compliment us as a result. Consequently, we may be
motivated to work even harder at our weight loss.
Diet pills are also convenient. We can keep them in our
medicine cabinet or kitchen cupboard. We can take a pill in the
morning and not have to worry about our weight for the rest of
the day. We don't have to do a great deal of research, as is
required when we are trying to determine which diet to try. In
addition, taking a diet pill is hardly as strenuous as running
five miles or swimming ten laps.
Moreover, diet pills can help us to shift some of the
responsibility for losing weight to another entity. No longer is
it simply up to us to control our weight. We look to the pill to
resolve our weight problem, once and for all. This can help to
lower our anxiety, reducing our stress level.
But there are also serious disadvantages to using diet pills.
For instance, there is the possibility that we will become
addicted to the medication. This can take a toll on not only our
physical health, but our emotional health as well. We may
become
too dependent on the pills, expecting them to solve our weight
problems.
Diet pills also teach us nothing about good nutrition. You do
not have to learn about proper diet if you are depending on a
pill to take your excess weight away. As a result, an individual
may never discover the importance of healthy eating, and his or
her overall health could suffer as a result.
In addition, there is no such thing as a quick fix when it
comes to weight loss. While you might lose weight for a time
after taking diet pills, you could quickly regain the weight,
once you go off the pills. As a result, diet pills fail to
provide a life-long approach to healthy weight maintenance.
Given the pros and cons of diet pills, you might be wondering
whether they would be right for you. Check with your family
physician. He or she is in the best position to assess your
overall health and determine whether diet pills would be
appropriate in your particular case. Secondly, consider
consulting with a nutritionist. He or she can help advise you
about whether to take diet pills.
Diet pills are a huge industry within the U.S. So, there is a
great deal of marketing, urging you to purchase these so-called
wonder drugs. But, before you buy, you have to seriously
consider whether these pills could jeopardize your health. While
it may be important for you to lose weight, it is even more
important for you to shield your body from harm.
Weight loss is not miraculous. It takes a great deal of
dedication and perseverance. Therefore, it is unlikely that you
will find the secret to weight loss in a bottle. By changing
your diet and exercising, you might notice only incremental
changes in your weight. However, over the long term, you might
be better able to maintain healthy weight loss by sticking with
the tried-and-true formula of diet and exercise.
About the author:
As a Teacher of Sport and Physical Education, Tony Robinson has
a keen interest in Health and Weight Loss issues. For handy
hints and tips for weight loss visit
http://www.weight-loss-arena.com
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