Risk of Diet Supplements for Weight Loss

Personally I don't recommend diet supplements in order to lose weight. There are a lot of diet pills for weight loss. However, they may include risky components for your health to increase your metabolism like thyroid hormones. I take a fish oil capsule every day. I also take a red wine extract capsule with no alcohol (Longevinex Inc.) because red wine is well-known good for health and it was proved that worms and mice which are eating the extract can survive longer than ones which don't eat it although it is not yet proved in human being (maybe under experiments). Fish oil and red wine extract capsules don't cause any side effects if you don't take overdose.

I will show you the list of current diet supplements you can buy as over-the-counter pills here. All pills below are not effective to lose weight and/or may cause health problems.

1. Bitter orange

2. Chitosan

3. Chromium

4. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA)

5. Country mallow (heartleaf)

6. Ephedra

7. Green tea extract

8. Guar gum

9. Hoodia

In addition, I suggest that you don't use herbal remedies. In the mid-1990s, doctors at a clinic in Belgium treated 43 patients with end-stage kidney failure, requiring dialysis or transplant. They had medical histories of Chinese herbal remedy for weight loss. One of the mixed herbs caused 46% of them to develop urothelial carcinoma (cancer of the tissues lining the bladder, ureter, and part of the kidney). In the US, the FDA doesn't have the authority to assess the safety of a dietary supplement before it is sold in stores. The FDA is allowed to restrict a supplement only after it proves the substance is harmful.

Recently acai (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) berries became popular by Oprah Winfrey and some web sites say they are helpful to lose weight. When I went to Costco on the other day, they were providing the free samples. Click here for more detail information of acai berries.

One of my friend said Chia Seeds have good nutrients for health in Facebook. Some companies say they have benefit for weight loss. Click here to see the detail.