Weight-Loss Miracles
Calgary Herald, 23rd February 2009
People who are desperate to lose weight try a number of solutions in belief they will help. The solution, though, is as simple as tough – they only way to lose weigh is to burn off more calories than you take in.
Unfortunately, according to the Canadian Medical Association, many people are tempted by quick weight-loss programs offering herbal products, cleanses and other drugs promising quick back to shape. Those products promise speeding up metabolism and stopping the appetite, seem like a miraculous solution to the problem.
Unfortunately, those products are not only useless but, what’s more, death cases were recorded after using ultra-low calorie diet with those drugs.
Dr. Arya Sharma from the University of Alberta says the reason people use such products is because the labels promise exactly what they want: boost the metabolism, cleans the body, no side effects and no need for physical activity. “Believe me, if such a product existed, I’d be the first to prescribe it to my patients.” Dr. Sharma says.
Dr. Sharma and other weight-loss surgeons admit that weight-loss procedures let patients lose only about 30% of their body. Results, however, can be much better if a patient changes a lifestyle and diet. Patients who are to undergo a weight-loss operation are informed about the risks of the surgery and how their life will be different afterwards. Changing eating habits and physical activity is a must which can lead to a healthy new life.
Losing weight is not an easy task; it requires lots of effort and commitment. Dr. Sharma advices to mistrust “any product that claims to cause weight loss of two pounds or more a week for a month or more without dieting or exercise; cause substantial weight loss no matter what or how you eat; cause permanent weight loss (even when you stop using the product) and safely enable consumers to lose more than three pounds per week for more than four weeks; cause substantial weight loss for all users; cause substantial weight loss by wearing it on the body or rubbing it into the skin.”
If it sounds too good to be true, it is not. Better than spending money on those products, spend them in a gym and healthy food.
