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Diet pills: is yours a fake?

by angela.booth on April 27, 2009

Is your diet pill a fake? It may well be.

The TRUTH about all those dodgy health claims, by one of Britain’s top researchers
| Mail Online
reports:

“… even when diet pills are shown in studies to help weight loss, the results can still be meaningless. The secret is in the small print. For the instructions usually say that pills must be taken alongside a lowcalorie diet and an exercise plan. They even say they should be taken before meals with a large glass of water – which will act as a bulking agent and stop you eating so much.

To prove this point, I developed my own diet pill and asked 17 overweight people to try it for a month, alongside a balanced diet and a sensible exercise plan.

More than 70 per cent of the volunteers lost weight and believed the tablets had worked. Unbeknown to them, though, the tablets were simply sugar, a placebo – which shows the power of mind over matter. Yet I could easily use my results to launch an impressive marketing campaign, – as many companies do.”

There’s a lesson in this: if you want to lose weight, follow a sensible diet, exercise, and drink water. This will do more for your weight loss than the most expensive weight loss pill you can buy.

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