I took a few herbal diet pills in college once on a whim, and I didnt eat anything for nearly two days afterwards. I also didnt really get much sleep either. Anything that makes you wired like that and kills your appetite so completely just isnt good for you.
While they were ephedra free and were supposedly totally natural and safe, I dont think Id ever felt so polluted and ill in my life. A year later I discovered that the FDA had banned the same herbal diet pills I had taken, and I have to wonder what it was I had put in my body.
Herbal diet pills are very popular these days as an alternative to more traditional methods of weight loss like diet and exercise. Herbal treatments in general are very trendy today, which I find a little worrisome for several reasons.
First of all, just about anything can be in an herbal diet pill. Herbs are a kind of loophole in the FDA system, as they are not classified as drugs and therefore dont have the rigorous standards for testing and safety that drugs normally get.
Make no mistake about it though, herbs can be every bit as potent and harmful as drugs. The difference between medicinal herbs and drugs is really...