Phen/Fen: Lose weight then have a stroke or a heart attack!

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Herbal Life and other pills like it: First you need to know exactly what you are putting into your body, and some of these products don't have the ingredients listed on the labels. Some common ingredients of these products, such as ma huang, can cause heart problems, high blood pressure, etc. as well as have bad interactions with medications. On the other hand there are also positive results with herballife or any other diet, so we recommend to be individually tested.

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Pyruvate: It reduces your ability to gain weight. It does not help you lose weight.

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Chromium picolinate: There is no scientific evidence (or personal evidence) to support that it actually causes weight loss.

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Fat binders: Take a pill when you eat something fatty. Problem: it doesn't bind to enough fat to actually cause you to lose weight & it can cause vitamin deficiencies.

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Patches: Plain and simple; they just don't work.

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Magnet therapy: There is no scientific evidence to support that it actually causes any weight loss.

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Apple cider vinegar: It's a salad dressing, not a weight loss solution. It does not help you lose weight no matter what the guy selling it tells you.

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Exercise pills: They contain ephedrine, a stimulant. It's great if you want to stay up all night, but it can also cause high blood pressure, heart attacks, and death! Here's a healthy alternative; try actually exercising.

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Liposuction: It's only cosmetic, and you only lose up to 7 lbs. You're body will quickly try to replace the fat.

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Low carb. / high protein diets: It causes vitamin deficiencies and is usually high in fat which can cause heart disease. They're also often low in fiber which helps fill you up and reduces your risk of illnesses like colon cancer. Besides, we need carbs to metabolize fat effectively. The metabolic process it produces causes the formation of ketones that cause fatigue, nausea, and fluid loss. There are also reports that it can cause constipation. Vegetarians can't do this diet at all.

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Low calorie diets and fasting: When you restrict the number of calories you consume, your body thinks you're starving, so it does everything it can to make sure that it doesn't use precious calories. Thus, your metabolism slows down, and it become more difficult to lose weight and easier to gain weight.
Plus, you'll probably have serious fatigue and find it difficult to concentrate. Let's also not forget that you're going to be hungry all the time.

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Food combining: This is where you eat certain foods with other foods so that they digest in a certain order at different rates which is supposed to help you lose weight. It doesn't work. Everything you eat, no matter what you try to combine it with, will still get digested, and you'll still gain the same number of calories that you would if you didn't combine the foods. Also, sometimes this diet has you not combine foods that should be combined to increase the absorption of nutrients, so some vitamin deficiencies can be possible.

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Blood type diets: Whether you are type A+ or O-, you're body will use the same digestion processes and metabolic processes that everyone else does. This diet is just absurd. It can also cause nutrient deficiencies because it eliminates various food groups for different blood types.

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Cabbage soup diet: Man shall not live by cabbage alone! This diet causes severe calorie reduction and nutrient deficiencies.

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Grapefruit diet: Man shall not live by grapefruit alone! Same thing as the cabbage soup diet. Too much restriction on the calories and can cause deficiencies.

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Juice diets: Calorie restriction, nutrient deficiencies, major hunger, and an overwhelming desire to chew on anything you can get your hands on are the drawbacks of this plan.

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Meal replacement drinks, bars, cookies, etc.:
Yes you'll lose weight! Unfortunately, the odds of keeping it off are pathetic unless you actually plan on drinking those nasty shakes or eating unappetizing meal bars for the rest of your life. You will gain the weight back.

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Fruit diets: You're reducing the amount of other food groups that you need, so naturally you're going to have nutrient deficiencies. Plus, you'll probably have one bad case of diarrhea.

The best way to lose weight is slowly. Yes, we all know that we would much rather lose 10 pounds in 10 days or something of that nature, but you will probably gain it back and cause yourself health problems in the process.

Make sure that whatever program you choose lets you eat from all of the food groups and won't starve you. Plus it must include exercise because we cannot reach a healthy weight through diet alone.

Reference: www.weight.com
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