Medical Aids For Weight Loss
February 10, 2009 by John Neyman
Filed under Weight Loss AND You
In today’s society, the want-it-all mantra has become all too familiar. Many people who decide they wish to lose weight simply do not want to wait for it; instead, demanding almost instantaneous results. The concept of slowly and gradually losing weight, combining a restricted diet of fatty foods exercise, seems to have been lost in the midst of time, swallowed by demands for an almost immediate effect.
The medical profession has, to an extent, helped bolster this. There are a range of pharmaceutical drugs available via prescription, which do indeed help people lose weight quickly. The companies producing these drugs are smart; they often take doctors and general practitioners on expensive weekends away to showcase their product, and this leads to an increase in prescriptions. The weight loss industry is worth billions, after all.
However, prescription medication should only be a last resort and – according to most experts – should not even be considered then, unless there is a real medical reason for a failure to lose weight. Many of the drugs are extreme lifestyle restrictive; they have side effects like extremely unpleasant and unpredictable diarrhoea. This may be a quick answer, but it isn’t pleasant.
A doctor will prescribe these medications and request the patient continues to follow a healthy diet and exercise plan while taking them. Unfortunately, as is obvious on online forums, many people don’t; they continue eating junk and let the medication take care of the problem. Nothing is learned, nothing is really changed, and a cycle of yo-yo dieting begins in earnest. These medications can usually only be prescribed for a year at a time; at the end of the cycle, people just gain weight again.
So the answer is simply to be patient. Alter your diet and lifestyle, take more exercise and use natural supplements if you need a helping hand. The prescription medication may seem like the answer to a prayer, but they are actually only going to defer the problem for up to 12 months.
