Another Dangerous Weight Loss Supplement Banned

Nice work, FDA.  The gov-ment put out a warning last week on Slimming Beauty, a dangerous weight loss supplement that, whoops, happens to contain prescription drugs.

If this sounds mildly familiar, it’s because the same thing happened with a weight loss supplement called Que She, which I talk about in this article.  Que She had all kinds of ridiculous stuff put in their formulation; Slimming Beauty isn’t much better.

Specifically, it contains a stimulant called sibutramine, which is a no-joke stimulant.  Like Fenfluramine, a stimulant used years ago in sketchy weight-loss clinics, sibutramine increases the risk of all kinds of fun stuff: heart and kidney failure, and my favorite, “sudden death”.

This isn’t the first time sibutramine has been put in weight loss products.  Earlier this year, “Herbal Diet Natural” was put on Health Canada’s danger list for containing this dangerous stimulant, and a couple of years back, the FDA put out a similar warning on over two dozen weight loss products.

In fact, there were even counterfeit versions of Alli, which is a prescription drug for weight loss, that contain sibutramine instead.  The irony of THAT is, Alli has its own safety problems.

What’s shocking to me about this isn’t that yet another weight loss supplement has been found to contain dangerous substances, it’s that people keep falling for this crap.  Seriously!  How many times do we have to get burned by yet another “weight loss miracle pill” before it finally sinks in that THERE IS NO MAGIC IN WEIGHT LOSS?

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again.  You gain or lose weight due to physics and biochemistry, not magic.  If some pill is going to make fat go away, just how it that going to happen?  In the absence of exercise or a proper diet, just how are you going to create an energy (caloric) deficit WITHOUT using some sicko dangerous stimulant to hop up your metabolic rate? Or perhaps some sort of laxative to make you uncontrollably void out everything you just ate (obviously also a dangerous and rather disgusting manuever)?

There is one path to losing weight, and that’s fixing your diet and exercise habits for the long term.  That’s why my weight loss book is all about how to change your fatness habits to fitness habits, not how to explosively poop your way to a slimmer you.

Sure, there’s a few supplements that can help move you in the right direction, but the healthy ones do it by replacing vital nutrients you may be missing, not by trying to create short-cuts with a thinly disguised version of crystal meth.  Things like antioxidants, fish oils, CoQ10 and chromium, all help by making the mechanisms of weight loss work properly… but you still have to eat right and exercise in order for it to work.

In other words, you can remove road blocks to weight loss with healthy supplements (like if excessive cortisol is making it tough to lose weight even if you’re exercising and eating a whole foods diet), but you can’t force the issue.  So rather than wait for the FDA to save you from yet another dangerous weight loss supplement… and believe me, there will be more… avoid the issue altogether by fixing your diet and exercise habits, and losing the weight that way.

Source article from the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm228801.htm

Link to sales page for my neurologically-based weight loss ebook, “Road Map To Abs”, on my weight loss sister site: http://www.roadmaptoabs.com/info/ .

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