Weight Loss

ACAI Alli

Hoodia SlimFast

Xenical

Obesity became a serious problem for developed countries and is reaching epidemic proportions. More and more people all over the world become predisposed to overweight or obesity. What are the best ways to lose weight? Which weight loss pills are good? What are the causes of obesity? Am I obese? Let's try to clear up all these questions.

Obesity is a term that relates to an excessive amount of fats in your body. If the percentage of body fat (in men) is over than 25 percent, then we could talk about obesity. In women this percent is higher than 30%. The are some ways to measure fats of the body. Some of them are quite expensive and are not available for all. In many cases health care provider estimates obesity or overweight using BMI (or body max index). The calculated of body mass index gives a possibility to estimate your weight status.

• Patients with BMI below 18.5 are considered underweight
• Patients with BMI 18.5-24.9 are considered that having normal weight
• Patients with BMI 25.0 29.9 are considered overweight
• Patients with BMI 30 and over are considered obese

What are the causes of obesity?

The main cause of obesity is very simple and consists in consumption of more calories (with food and drinks) that his organism is able to burn throughout the day. Many people believe that obesity is caused by certain medicines, hormonal diseases or genetic factors. However, all of them are not causes but factors of risk. This mean that they can increase a chance to be or become overweight but they do not cause obesity on their own.

What are the best ways to lose weight?

The health care providers agree that regular physical exercise and healthy diet is one of the most effective ways to prevent obesity. The best way to loose the extra pounds are having regular physical exercises and eating healthy food such as fruits and vegetables (which are lack of saturated fats and are low in calories). Besides weigh loss benefits, physical exercises and diet can help:

• to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes
• to reduce high blood pressure
• to lower the risk of diabetes and colon cancer
• to protect bone fractures in elderly patients
• to prevent some types of cancer (breast cancer)

Can obesity be treated with weight loss drugs?

Currently there are no known any weight loss medicines which can easily help to lower excessive body weight. The most of available drugs and supplements can serve as additional approach in weight loss program. Currently there are available a lot of herbal supplements and weight loss pills are used in weight loss management. They include:

Lipase inhibitors such as Orlistat (Xenical, Alli). This type of medicines works by inhibiting the break down of lipids in the stomach and bowel. In results the organism get less calories with food.

Appetite suppressants such as Sibutramine (Meridia), this type of medicines helps to promote the sense of fullness via increasing the amount of certain compounds in the brain

Herbal supplements. The most of herbal supplements like ACAI, Hoodia possesses a complex of biologically active compounds like flavonoids, vitamins which help to decrease appetite and enhance metabolism. However, the effectiveness of these drugs were not studied in clinical trials.