Diet and Health FAQ

Tagged As: Diet Patch

Question:
I realize many are against fad diets, and I'm certainly suspicious of them, but the patch caught my eye. I tried searching for info on the internet but mostly find the product site themselves, and I don't trust them to tell you everything. Are their any sites that review new diet products? I'm trying to find something new that may curb my appetite throughout the day without harmful side effects. The one I am most interested in is called Dexapad, there are many for sale on Ebay at a reasonable price.

Answer:
When it comes down to it, nothing works better than a little discipline and hard work. If I were you, I wouldn't waste any money on some diet patch. You would be better to invest your money in some nutrition and fitness books, videos, etc... Totally Bogus. Even if you took these ingredients in capsules, they wouldn't do anything for you. The patch certainly won't. If these herbal patches actually contained the carrier that real patches use to carry medications through the skin with these herbs, they would probably cause horrible infections....if they actually had the herbs in them...but they are homeopathic. These ingredients are endorsed on their ad pages by various homeopathic medical journals. Homeopathic doses, by definition, means there aren't more than a couple of molecules of these substances in them, anyway. A homeopathic dose is basically equivalent to diluting a capsule of these ingredients in a swimming pool's worth of water, and selling the bottled water, which is magically potentiated by banging the bottle of water on a felt pad a couple of hundred times. So you're apparently paying for a pad soaked in water that supposedly retains the memory of the herbs put in it before it was diluted to nothing. Why it is supposed to remember these, and not every fish and bug and piece of dirt that was once in the water, is a homeopathic mystery. The ingredients are Bladderwrack (Fucus vsiculosis): a seaweed, high in iodine. Crap-sellers love to push seaweed, claiming it aids your thyroid to help you lose weight. Table salt has had iodine added for about the last 50 years to prevent goiter (very enlarged thyroid), not weight problems, from iodine deficiency. You don't need any iodine, unless perhaps you've been deliberately getting un-iodized salt, and people with underactive thyroids that cause weight gain need thyroid hormone, not iodine. Garcinia cambogia: also known as Brindall berry in bogus Berry Trim, better known as citrimax lately, and its extract as hydroxycitric acid (HCA, or hydroxagen in Hydroxycut). This has been shown useless for human weight loss in a couple of published medical studies in the last couple of years. Some study about 20 years ago showed that rats (which grow throughout their lives,) gained less weight with HCA than rats not getting HCA. *Not* less fat, just less weight -- so if you have fat rats, this would be the supplement for them, using biochemical pathways that humans don't have. And so it's been sold for weight loss ever since, even though there has never been any evidence that it does anything for humans. Guarana: an herb high in caffeine, no other weight loss benefits. Coffee is much cheaper. maybe change how you eat. try low carb it will keep you full all day long.