Posted by Jona

Listen I am not going to get on my soap box and tell you what is right and wrong, I am not your parent. I am simply going to give you the facts about rapid fat loss.

Let me start with the bottom line.

There are 2 ways to lose weight rapidly. One is with drugs and the other is with proper diets. One requires money and guts to take risks and the other requires a bit of planning and guts to to stick to a plan.

It is that simple.

Drug Solutions

So here’s the low down. Drugs are available that can - and do - get rapid results. You’ve heard of them Xenical, Akavar, Xenadrine, Lipozene, Clenbuterol, and Dianabol and the list goes on and on. Each of these drugs use a different pathway to get results.

Some like Zenical and Lipozene use various methods to get dietary fats to bypass absorption in your intestinal tract. Because of this the fats need to be expelled via your bowels. Side effects include diarrhea, bowel pain, and oily anal discharge.

Others like Xenadrine and Akavar use very high dosages of stimulants - albeit natural stimulants - to raise metabolism. This extreme rise in metabolism comes with increased heart rate and blood pressure. Which most cardiologists believe cause severe fatigue to the muscles comprising the heart. Side effects include nausea, hiatal hernias, severe dehydration and possibly heart damage.

The last class of drugs affect the body’s hormones, which makes them the most powerful of all three types. Brands such as Clenbuterol and Dianabol are in this class. These types of drugs artificially raise testosterone levels which increase lean muscle mass and burn fat . The side effects are sever masculinization in women (deepening of the voice, growth of body and facial hair, etc.) and testicle shrinkage in men.

Aside from the side effects listed here there a host of other unknowns. Most of the manufacturers of these products place them on the market knowing that at some point the FDA will shut them down. Remember the Fen Phen frenzy and bust, and ephedra craze? Once the FDA shuts down a profitable drug, the companies simply alter the products enough to bypass current FDA regs and reissue under different patent numbers until shut down again - rinse wash and repeat.

Diet Solutions

The alternative to drugs up until recently has been quite bleak. But thankfully dietary science has caught up with drug technology. Today, by treating foods (including fast foods) as drugs - with specific proportions and combinations - scientists have uncovered ways to get drug like effects using the foods found in your local grocery store.

The diets leading the way in the use of this science are calorie cycling diets - diets where calorie types are cycled to force the body to produce its own fat burning hormones.

No longer is the need for paying high drug prices, and suffering over drug side effects [and even black market purchasing] necessary.

However the choice is still yours. There are two routs you can go by. Just be informed.

By Christina Laslow