There are many types of sliming pills, or losing weight pills.
You had seen this "lose your excess weight without any effort" or " 30 pounds in just 30 days without any diet or workout", lots and lots of slogans like these to advertise these pills.
But what is the truth, are they really effective? Is these slogans right? Are these pills suitable for me? And many questions like these will arise in your mind when you read such advertisements.
In fact there are two main types of sliming pills according to their origin.
Natural made pills and they are also known as a type of food supplements, and medicated or pharmaceutical slimming pills.
First let us see what are the natural sliming pills, simply they are concentrated extract from mainly some plants which had proven to produce sliming action, these extracts could be from one plant or a combination of many extracts.
The most common used extracts in the market are from pineapple, kiwi, green tea and apple vinegar.
They all affect the metabolism rate, so they increase the amount of fat burned to produce energy for any activity.
It is that simple, for an example, if any type of activity needs 100 calorie, with these pills it will need 120 calories or more.
So you will burn more calories for the same effort -they also are called fat burners-.
But as you see you had to make some effort for that type of pills to work, so if you took it without any activities there will be no use of these pills or there effect will be at the minimum.
These pills are normally taken after meals.
There is another category of natural slimming pills, fibers.
Some types of pills are mainly made of natural fibers, which should be taken before meals with one or two glasses.
Its role is to make you feel full, by the action of absorbing water and increase in size to take a big portion of your stomach.
Natural slimming pills has no side effect normally, and it is an over the counter items.
The other type is the pharmaceutical one.
It is a medicine; mostly it should be prescribed by a physician.
It is more potent than the natural one.
This type has many categories for many modes of actions.
They are made out of chemicals, which has been tested to preform an action which will aid the patient to lose weight.
The first category is appetite suppressors, it is a medicine which is intended to be taken to reduce your appetite, and it is much more potent than the natural one.
Its effect in mainly on the appetite centers in the brain, as they block these receptors so you will not feel hungry, and when you eat you will feel full fast.
As it is very potent, it has many side effects, mainly as it works on the brain it will change the mood, as main people who are taking this type of medicine at their first week they feel very uncomfortable.
This type should be taken once a day in the morning.
The most popular medicine is Reductile® or in some countries Meridia® (sibutramine hydrochloride monohydrate).
Another famous category is the fat absorption preventers.
This type works in the digestive system, it decrease the absorption of fats and oil from our bodies.
This type has fewer side effects as the medicine will ever enter your body, its work is in the digestive system, and it will combine with the fat which inters your body in the form of food, take it and goes out.
This type should be taken before meals, so that it can act on the food fat.
Xenical® (orlistat) is the most common of this type.
So as you see this is a quick review on the most common weight loss pills, and why they are intended to be taken and how they work.