Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: This is an article about the market for hoodia gordonii, the diet pills used to suppress appetite and now being sold by a variety of companies. To begin this article, I have to tell you that I can't reveal everything I've discovered in this market. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This isn't what you'll hear from those selling fat loss supplements and diet pills, of course. But it's the truth as things stand today. Maybe we will see a revolutionary approach to fat loss at some point in the future (perhaps the PYY appetite control nasal spray, for example), but chances are that medical researchers will continue to be baffled by the human body's multiple, redundant calorie accumulation mechanisms that have so far made it impossible to develop a safe, effective fat loss wonder drug. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Although this major side effect was recently discovered, rest assured that it will not be discussed with patients before putting them on stimulant diet pills. How long will it take health authorities to warn pregnant mothers or women who may become pregnant of increased risk for leukemia in their offspring if they take antihistamines or allergy medication while pregnant? Meanwhile, the quick-fix oriented public is continuing to pop sibutramine pills.
GASTRIC BYPASS INSANITY
A basic rule of natural balance is to keep all body parts whenever possible. |
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| Avoid guar gum diet pills. They can swell in your intestines, esophagus, or throat resulting in blockages or even death. Stick to guar gum in small, safe amounts in foods. together. Some examples and salad dressings. You health food stores.
Guar gum, a form of soluble fiber, has been shown to lower cholesterol in numerous studies. In fact, adding gums to your diet can reduce LDL cholesterol by as much as 26 percent. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| Amphetamine-based diet pills, known to suppress appetite, have been around for a long time. The stimulative effects of cocaine are also well known. The brain actually makes small amounts of these substances, and they have a natural stimulant effect.
The cells in the brain responding to this stimulation are called CART (cocaine and amphetamine regulating transcript). Not surprisingly, CART is a favorite target of pharmaceutical company research. CART activation suppresses appetite by interacting with the hypothalamus gland.71 In normal and healthy metabolism, as leptin goes down, so does CART. |
| This issue is further complicated by the fact that CART-related drugs, including stimulant diet pills, have no restraint keeping them out of the brain. In leptin resistance, leptin cannot enter the brain in proper amounts, even though the levels are high in the blood. Cocaine and amphetamine readily enter the brain where they can directly wreak havoc with leptin.76 No matter how much of the drug is consumed, it will always enter the brain.
CART is a normal neuropeptide. In normal circumstances in non-drugged individuals, it is under leptin control. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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King Hoodia
Hoodia Max
If your hoodia diet pills aren't working...
The high prevalence of counterfeit hoodia supplements sold in western countries may help explain why some hoodia users complain the herb isn't working for them. The reason is simple, it seems: they're not taking genuine hoodia gordonii.
The solution is to switch to a brand of hoodia that has been 100% authenticated as genuine, such as Desert Burn, Hoodoba, King Hoodia or Hoodia Max. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 The new ephedra-free diet pills have simply replaced ephedra with bitter orange, which has many of the same "fat-burning/appetite-suppressing" effects but doesn't yet have the bad rap. (See below for more about bitter orange.)
If ephedra does manage to dodge the bullet and stay on the market— and you decide to try it—make sure that you do not fit into any of the categories mentioned above, and never take more than the recommended dosage. |
Mike Adams
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 You might even end up heavier than you were before taking the diet pills.
Our bodies are designed for survival, rather than looking good in that bikini. We still have the same genes that we had when our ancestors had to live through famines. A person with stored body fat survives through a food shortage better than a thin person, so our bodies are programmed to store excess calories whenever it can get them, just in case we might be forced to live on very little food in the future. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 Prescription Weight-Loss Drugs
The history of prescription diet pills in the United States is full of woe and intrigue. Starting in the 1950s, millions of overweight Americans were prescribed amphetamines to help them shed a few extra pounds. Such stimulants were supposed to be taken for only a few months at a time, but they were extremely seductive. Many respectable housewives became dependent on "speed." This made physicians a bit more cautious about prescribing such medications to help people lose weight. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 People with insomnia are typically advised to avoid stimulants such as caffeine (found in coffee, tea, and soda), diet pills containing ephedra, and over the counter cold and allergy products containing pseudoephedrine.
Dietary changes that may be helpful
Caffeine is a stimulant.1 The effects of caffeine can last up to 20 hours,2 so some people will have disturbed sleep patterns even when their last cup of coffee was in the morning. Besides regular coffee, black tea, green tea (page 686), cocoa, chocolate, some soft drinks, and many over-the-counter pharmaceuticals also contain caffeine. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Taking medication antihistamines and decongestants dry the colon; slowing it down are antacids of Calcium Carbonate, amphetamines, diet pills, painkillers, cough remedies with codeine, phenothiazine tranquilizers, tricyclic antidepressants sinequan and elavil. atropine, cholesterol-lowering drugs questran, and anti-cancer dmg Oncovin; laxatives may thin the colonic wall muscles for insufficient contraction and painful spasms. Chi ldren may suffer from a large megacolon lacking nerve fibers for movement. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| During the 1990s doctors began to combine two diet pills that had been around for decades. The combination of fenfluramine and phentermine ("fen-phen") seemed to work better than either drug alone. The only trouble was, the combination led to heart valve complications. At about the same time, a new appetite suppressant, dexfenfluramine (Redux), was approved. It, too, was associated with heart problems and a potentially life-threatening condition called pulmonary hypertension. |
Mike Adams
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| Weight loss aids influence any one of these factors, and nature provides many natural alternatives to over-the-counter and prescription diet pills without the side effects.
Download the Honest Food Guide, free!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture currently pretends to offer objective, consumer-oriented nutritional advice through its well-known food guide pyramid. However, a bit of research into this subject shows that the food pyramid was actually constructed with the help of food industry giants. |
Mike Adams
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| You'll find other diet bars and diet pills containing added sugars and high-fructose corn syrup. Of course, none of these products actually work to help people lose weight. They can't — they're made with ingredients that promote intense cravings and disrupt normal blood sugar levels in the body. As a result, they promote diabetes and obesity.
That's why these products don't make any health claims whatsoever about weight loss on their labels. They can't make such claims. They don't help people lose weight in the first place. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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| They may also frequently use laxatives, diet pills, and medicines designed to induce vomiting or reduce fluid retention.
Medical treatments
Prescription medications commonly prescribed for bulimia include the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft), venlafaxine (Effexor), and fluvox-amine (Luvox), as well as the tricyclic antidepressants amitriptyline (Elavil), desipramine (Norpramin), and imipramine (Tofranil). |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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| Bitter Orange
Bitter orange (citrus aurantium) is the ingredient found in most of the new "ephedra-free" diet pills. It's an herb that contains the active ingredient synephrine. Synephrine is chemically very similar to ephedrine and pseu-doephedrine and has similar effects in terms of providing an energy boost, suppressing the appetite, and increasing metabolic rate and caloric expenditure. |
| The new "ephedra-free" diet pills have simply replaced ephedra with bitter orange (citrus aurantium), an herb that contains the active ingredient synephrine. Synephrine is chemically very similar to ephedrine and pseu-doephedrine and has similar effects in terms of providing an energy boost, suppressing the appetite, and increasing metabolic rate and caloric expenditure. By stimulating specific adrenergic receptors, it is theorized that synephrine stimulates fat metabolism without the negative cardiovascular side effects experienced by some people with ephedra (also called ma huang). |
| Most used some combination of:
• bitter orange (citrus aurantium), a stimulant that increases metabolism (thermogenesis) slightly and is discussed above (see "What About Over-the-Counter 'Ephedra-Free' diet pills?")
• guarana, which is herbal caffeine
• white willow bark, which is basically aspirin and really doesn't add anything to the mix
• green tea extract, a.k.a. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| The track record for herbal diet pills is frankly rather discouraging. For quite a while, ephedra (Ephedra sinica) was promoted as a natural weight loss aid. Companies producing ephedra products made a lot of money until, eventually, the FDA reviewed all the reports of problems with this herb. The agency determined that ephedra was associated with a number of strokes, heart attacks, and other serious complications and called for its removal from the market. Aside from being overweight, some of the people who suffered life-threatening or even fatal side effects were otherwise in good health. |
Mike Adams
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| In the 1990s, weight loss pill manufacturers began using highly concentrated forms of Ephedra in metabolism-boosting diet pills that were aggressively marketed as miracle weight loss aids. In typical Western fashion, Ephedra was being put into pills in concentrated, isolated doses—a practice that would be laughed at in Chinese medicine.
The active chemicals in ephedra are stimulants, and when taken in isolation without supporting herbs, they can temporarily elevate pulse and blood pressure. |
| You can lose weight without relying on diet pills. Exercise and food choice are the keys to success with any weight loss effort.
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Arthritis is an inflammation condition. The problem with the conventional treatment of arthritis is that modern medicine and doctors simply try to treat the symptoms. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| They also take over-the-counter diet pills.
My main concern is about the abuse of laxatives. Would you please print the harmful effects laxatives can cause? She won't listen to me!
A. Chronic laxative abuse can undermine the body's ability to eliminate waste on its own. We have heard from many elderly people who started using laxatives in their youth and became dependent upon them.
We are more concerned, however, about the potential interactions these young women might experience. Strong laxatives can deplete the body of potassium. |
| In addition, investigators
ž Rimonabant (Acomplia)
Acomplia is different from other prescription diet pills because it works on an entirely new mechanism. It blocks brain CB(1) (cannabi-noid 1) receptors that respond to natural marijuana-like compounds. It is more effective than any other medication for weight loss, helping people lose more than 15 pounds over the course of a year.
Acomplia also has beneficial effects on good HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, insulin efficiency, blood sugar level, and blood pressure. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The corporations that sell diet food, diet pills, and other weight-loss aids are making more money than ever before.
An ideal scenario would be never having to take a single drug and never getting sick. An ideal scenario would be waking up in the morning full of energy and vitality, content, and feeling absolutely great. You go throughout your day with energy, a bounce in your step, a smile on your face. You don't feel stressed, anxious, or depressed; you don't feel tired, you have no headaches or pain in your body; you are not overweight and you don't get colds or flus or sickness. |
| More people are concerned about and are eating low calorie food than ever before. More diet pills and diet aides are used than ever before. More people exercise than ever before. But the fact is, with all this effort being put into losing weight, we are fatter than ever before. How can this be? Keep in mind that this is really an American problem. Although obesity is rising slightly in other countries around the world, America leads the way in people that are overweight and obese. |
| The depletion of the market for Nancy's Bread due to the perceived easier-to-use over-the-counter diet pills made selling the bread mixture or the bread loaves impossible. This was because there was such a small markup.
I think came up with the idea of selling the recipe in printed form.
So I created sales generation systems to sell the bread recipe which turned out to be successful. In a few months we were selling over 30,000 bread recipes a month, and customers were deliriously happy about the bread. |
Jean Antonello
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 But when Marilyn went back to school in the fall, she had to stop taking the diet pills. The doctor said they were only a temporary help because they were addictive.
Marilyn started gaining weight within two weeks, and by the end of the school year she had gained thirty-five pounds. Marilyn's mom begged the diet doctor to give her daughter more diet pills to reverse the trend, but he said he couldn't. He told her that Marilyn was gaining weight because she wasn't sticking with the low-calorie diet he suggested. That was true, but it wasn't the whole story. |
H. Winter Griffith, M.D.
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 Don't take with:
Any other medicines (including over-the-counter drugs such as cough and cold medicines, laxatives, antacids, diet pills, caffeine, nose drops or vitamins) without consulting your doctor.
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POSSIBLE
ADVERSE REACTIONS OR SIDE EFFECTS
SYMPTOMS
WHAT TO DO
Life-threatening:
Unconsciousness.
Seek emergency treatment immediately.
Common:
Nausea.
Continue. Call doctor when convenient.
Infrequent:
Lightheadedness, breathing difficulty, skin rash.
Discontinue. Call doctor right away.
Rare:
None expected. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| It was good for us, good for the customers, and good for the country, but it was not good for the patent-medicine industry which perceived it was losing sales on its patent-medicine prescription and over-the-counter diet pills, which not only did not work but were harmful to the user's health.
But the patent-medicine industry couldn't use the FDA because we weren't selling an actual food product this time. The FDA cannot regulate printed material. Also, after the thrashing we gave it, it would be unlikely that it would even try. |
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