I've reviewed close to 300 different diet pills now and I'm often asked how it is that I can judge the efficacy of a diet pill without actually taking the diet pill myself. The answer is simple: If you want to know if a diet pill will work, just look at its ingredients. Surprisingly, the actual ingredients in the product are usually what gets looked over when most consumers decide on a diet pill. This brief article will help you as you evaluate diet pills to know if the ingredients included are up to par and will be likely to help you lose weight.
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.
So if I check out all the ingredients in the diet pill and they look as though they've been proven to effectively cause weight loss, I can then assume the diet pill will work right? Well, not so fast. You then have to verify the amounts of the ingredients used. Many diet pills will use what they call 'Proprietary Blends' in which they don't have to disclose the amounts of each ingredient in the pill. They only list the ingredient.
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.
Another thing for you to watch out for is when diet pills put a big long laundry list of ingredient on the label trying to impress you into thinking the diet pill will work. With so many ingredients you usually can't fit the correct amounts in. So don't be impressed.
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. - 17944
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.
So if I check out all the ingredients in the diet pill and they look as though they've been proven to effectively cause weight loss, I can then assume the diet pill will work right? Well, not so fast. You then have to verify the amounts of the ingredients used. Many diet pills will use what they call 'Proprietary Blends' in which they don't have to disclose the amounts of each ingredient in the pill. They only list the ingredient.
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.
Another thing for you to watch out for is when diet pills put a big long laundry list of ingredient on the label trying to impress you into thinking the diet pill will work. With so many ingredients you usually can't fit the correct amounts in. So don't be impressed.
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. - 17944
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