Myth 1: All diet pills work
Speaking of which, I really have to admire human imagination: the diet pills actually contain live tapeworm eggs! After taking this medicine, the eggs enter the digestive tract, hatch tapeworms, continuously absorb nutrients in the food, suppress or even destroy the appetite – weight loss, it is very effective. It’s just, how much courage does it take to live with insects day and night? Then there are diet pills that talk about “metabolism“. In fact, there is only one safe and effective way to boost your metabolism: physical exercise. However, we always look forward to more magical and effective ways. The United States has produced this kind of “improve metabolism, more fat burning” diet pills – containing thyroxine or similar substances extracted from animal bodies. Its characteristic is to accelerate the metabolism of the human body until it becomes disordered. After taking the medicine, you will lose weight rapidly in a very short time, and at the same time, symptoms similar to hyperthyroidism will appear: tremors in the hands, diarrhea, night sweats, heat intolerance, rapid heartbeat, and exophthalmos.
Myth 2: Losing weight means losing weight
Whether weight loss is the standard for most weight loss people to measure the success of weight loss, but in fact, fat accumulation is the real reason. The scale hides the truth: it all happens in a rut. Diet pills containing “diuretics” transfer water that accounts for 70% of the body’s weight from the body and quickly lose weight. Diet pills containing rhubarb, senna and other diarrhea effects are also based on this principle. However, these two types of drugs can only be used for a short period of time. Once it is stopped, drink water and eat, and the weight will rebound like a broken bamboo.
Myth 3: Natural is safe
Whether it is medicine or health care products, once you play the trump card of “pure natural”, there will always be no disadvantage. Natural = Safe? actually not. No matter what raw materials are used, and no matter how the processing technology is, once the drug has the function of interfering with metabolism and affecting absorption and digestion, the effect is the same as that of chemicals. Chinese herbal ephedra is “natural”, and many weight loss health foods were used as additives in the past. What really works are the ephedrine and pseudoephedrine contained in ephedra, which suppress appetite by stimulating the nervous system and thyroxine, but also have quite serious side effects: paralysis of hands and feet, increased blood pressure, mental tension , panic, etc.
