Women and Diet Pills
Over the years diet pills have become the “best” source of weight lost. They are seen as a new way to lose weight without having to undergo very difficult surgeries. Diet pills are said to not cause any harm and will not have any long term side effects. This is not true and these companies are feeding women who are overweight false hopes. These diet pills cannot be healthy if they are causing health issues like seizures, hyperthermia, high blood pressure, and hallucinations. Just to name a few but the list goes on.
There are so many overweight women in America and by telling them these pills work they are willing to take them. Over ◦51.5% of women aged 20-34 are overweight in the US 1999-2000 (Health United States, 2003, NCHS) http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/o/overweight/stats.htm and to tell them that diet pills are just the best thing since food would be false advertisement. Though a lot of these pills work most of these women are unaware of the health risk.
Some of the diet pills that have eight to ten side effects are Ephedra (8), Meridia (9), and Adipex (10). These pills all have commercials and are false advertising to not only women but overweight people all over the world. These pills that cause life risking threats should be pulled off of the market. Due to the fact that if you have low self-esteem you would be willing to try almost anything even if this is a life threating thing. There are even more of these dangerous pills on the website http://www.weightlossunit.com/diet-pills-side-effects.html.
We live in a society where if you are not thin you are teased and talked about. There is only some much that a woman can take. We are said to be sensitive and this is true when it comes to emotional problems. So when the weight does not fall off quick enough women tend to take supplements to help. How are they supposed to feel when there are beautiful women like Kim Kardashian diet pills commercials claiming they use them? This makes them feel less worthy and starts depression. If these pill are going to continue to be on the market women should have to take a class to receive proper information about this pill. This is after their doctor gives them the okay to take it.
There are also younger girls who are overweight who deals with the same problems older woman go through. The thought of being overweight for some young girls leads to anorexia. Anorexia is also a side effect of the pill Meridia. The young girls become this way because they are afraid to become over weight. So they buy diet pills to try to make sure that doesn’t happen to them. This is very sad that we as a country have girls who are afraid of becoming overweight. In some cases being overweight is not healthy but, these are not the reasons young girls do this. Their doing this because the society was growing up in makes us believe that being small is the only way of the world.
As a society we need to treat each other better and stop making people believe that they are less than. This is not how we want other people to feel as if they have to take pills and risk them lives to become a part of society. The side effects of these medications are very dangerous and will kill people who were otherwise healthy. Yes being overweight can cause some health problems but the natural was is always the best way to go. Diet pills with high side effects should be removed off the market for good. They are un healthy and will end up hilling someone if this is not tackled in a timely manner.
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