Alli Diet Pill

Alli is Not Your Ally

Nearly everyone wants to lose a little weight. But at what cost? Recently approved by the FDA is the weight loss pill Alli, which claims to be able to help individuals lose 50 percent more weight than with healthy diet and exercise alone.

The pill works, in part, by preventing about 25 percent of the fat you ingest from being absorbed by the body. If you eat a lot of fat, this could be a good thing, and help you lose a lot of weight. The weight loss industry is 43 billion dollars strong, and growing; no doubt the new Alli diet drug, which is the first FDA approved diet drug available over the counter, will help fuel this hot market.

But what about the dark side of Alli? What problems could it possibly cause? Have we been deceived in any way?

Some of the side effects of taking the Alli drug can be painful, embarrassing, and potentially devastating to your psychological health.

Alli, actually, was barely effective when tested clinically. Those who took the Alli pill lost only a pound a month. That's barely anything. You could easily lose more weight than that by chewing gum and twiddling your thumbs and drinking more water. (Chewing gum for several hours a day can burn a couple hundred calories; twiddling your thumbs or generally just being twitchy-ish can burn an additional whopping three hundred calories a day. So tap your feet and rock your head as you listen to your favorite song. And drinking a liter of ice-cold water spikes the metabolism by about 3 percent for half an hour; the average adult male would burn 50 calories in that time. Drink more water.)

In addition to being ineffective, the weight loss was reverse as soon as the individuals stopepd taking the drug.

So many people are so worried about losing weight that they will do anything to lose it--even things that they know are probably unhealthy for them.