| Obesity is an epidemic in the West, but it is fast | | | | part of the diet of the bushmen there for centuries. |
| becoming a problem in other areas of the world as | | | | Hoodia works by making the brain believe that the |
| well, as people become more accustomed to eating | | | | stomach is full. CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl even |
| unhealthy convenience foods and start to lead more | | | | went to the Kalahari Desert to try hoodia herself, and |
| sedentary lifestyles. Can weight loss supplements | | | | she says that not only did she not feel hungry all day, |
| ease the problem and help a person shed those | | | | but that she had no desire to eat or drink at all.Some |
| excess pounds? There may be evidence that they | | | | herbal supplements said to promote weight loss |
| could do just this.But wait! Let me say from the outset | | | | contain an ingredient called phaseolus vulgaris, which is |
| that no matter how many weight loss supplements | | | | extracted from the white kidney bean. These |
| you take, they won't do you any good at all if you | | | | supplements are also known as carb blockers, or |
| continue to take in more calories that you burn. If you | | | | carbohydrate blockers. They prevent the body from |
| come across a supplement that claims that you will | | | | absorbing starches, and are beneficial to those on a |
| lose weight just by taking it -- even if you eat all the | | | | controlled-carbohydrate diet. Even more popular as |
| food you want and don't exercise -- stay away from | | | | weight loss supplements are so-called fat blockers, |
| it. Either it will have no effect at all, or it will make you | | | | which, as the name implies, inhibit the body's absorption |
| very sick. Always remember that a healthy diet and | | | | of fat. Chitosan, a substance derived from shellfish, is |
| good exercise are the essential components of an | | | | the main ingredient in fat blockers. It is an indigestible |
| effective weight loss regimen. A weight loss | | | | fiber that absorbs fat from foods. However, it is not |
| supplement is just used to speed the process along | | | | suitable for people who are allergic to shellfish.Other |
| just a little bit.There are many kinds of weight loss | | | | diet pills have the effect of increasing lean muscle |
| food supplements out in the market today, and they | | | | mass or reducing fat, or both. Supplements that |
| have different functions and mechanisms. Some | | | | contain chromium picolinate are likely to be helpful and |
| supplements function on the principle of thermogenics, | | | | safe, according to human studies. Clinical trials also |
| that is, the body's process of making the metabolism | | | | show that sometimes chromium has no effect on |
| run faster to burn fat faster and more efficiently. A | | | | body weight, even though it can increase lean muscle |
| number of herbal supplements can contain ingredients | | | | and decrease weight. Still, there are concerns about its |
| that stimulate the metabolism, such as ephedra (ma | | | | safe use in the long run. Another substance that |
| huang), green tea extract, caffeine, guarana, or | | | | shows similar promise is conjugated linoleic acid, which |
| synephrine. Synephrine encourages the breakdown of | | | | is found in beef and dairy foods. But again, more |
| fat cells; guarana contains guaranine, whose effects | | | | studies are needed to assess its effectiveness in |
| are very similar to those of caffeine; and green tea | | | | weight loss and lean muscle mass-building. The same |
| not only promotes thermogenesis, it has numerous | | | | goes for hydroxymethylbutyrate (HMB), which is a |
| healthy effects on the body as well. Ephedra was a | | | | by-product of the breakdown of leucine, an amino acid. |
| popular ingredient in many weight loss supplements, | | | | Sometimes it can be confusing to choose from |
| until it was banned because of associations with | | | | among the many weight loss supplements available |
| adverse events like heart attacks, stroke, and | | | | today, most of which have heavy marketing and |
| death.Some diet pills and herbal supplements work to | | | | advertising hype behind them.Whichever ones you |
| suppress the appetite and reduce food cravings. For | | | | choose, remember that they don't work magic; they |
| instance, plantago psyllium -- derived from the seeds | | | | should always be taken in conjunction with healthy |
| of Plantago ovato -- is said to cause a feeling of | | | | eating habits and regular physical provides you with |
| fullness, thereby discouraging more food intake. But | | | | information on (herbal) nutritional supplements, weight |
| perhaps the most famous appetite suppressant is | | | | loss supplements, bodybuilding supplements, & anti |
| hoodia, which is derived from a prickly plant that grows | | | | aging natural supplements. |
| in South Africa's Kalahari Desert and which has been | | | | |