how safe are appetite suppressants?

Answer 1

I mentioned that I was taking diet pills in one of my questions, and everyone told me that it was dangerous.

Answer 2

They are not safe and are merely on the market to get your money.

Bottom line, if you want to lose some weight, don't eat as much during a meal and eat several healthy food items per day. Cease fast food and greasy courses altogether and you will overall feel better. Many people do not like the idea of diet + exercise and have never been told they go hand in hand. You won't feel so energetic and willing to become a new person until you alter your intake of healthy foods and you don't need some plan or some lose weight fast con to get you where you want to be. You just have to have willpower and everyone really knows what is healthy for them, they just have to strive to that goal willingly.

Answer 3

Anorectics, anorexigenics or appetite suppressants are drugs that reduce the desire to eat ("anorectic", from the Greek an- = "not" and oreg- = "extend, reach").

("Anorectic" is also a term for an anorexic person, a person suffering from Anorexia nervosa.)

Used on a short term basis clinically to treat obesity, some appetite suppressants are also available over the counter. Drugs of this class are frequently stimulants of the phenethylamine family, related to amphetamine (speed). Amphetamines were widely issued to British soldiers during the First World War in order to suppress their appetites and thus ease the strain on the over-stretched logistics network. The German military experimented with a similar system in 1945, when food supplies were very short in Germany. Following the Second World War, amphetamines were re-directed for use on the civilian market. Indeed, amphetamine itself was sold commercially as an appetite suppressant until it was outlawed in most parts of the world in the late 1950s due to increasing exploitation of its stimulant properties ("abuse"). Many amphetamines produce side effects including addiction, tachycardia and hypertension, making prolonged unsupervised use dangerous.

Epidemics of fatal pulmonary hypertension and heart valve damage associated with anorectic agents have led to the withdrawal of products from the market. This was the case with aminorex in the 1960s, and again in the 1990s with fenfluramine (see: Fen-phen). Likewise, association of the related appetite suppressant phenylpropanolamine with hemorrhagic stroke led the FDA to request its withdrawal from the market in the United States in 2000, and similar concerns regarding ephedrine resulted in an FDA ban on its inclusion in dietary supplements, in 2004.

In spite of these precedents, numerous related compounds are still marketed today as appetite suppressants. These include:

Phentermine (Fastin®, Adipex®, Ionamin® and others)
Diethylpropion (Tenuate®)
Phendimetrazine (Prelu-2®, Bontril®)
Benzphetamine (Didrex®)
Sibutramine (Meridia®, Reductil®) is a recent addition, which is used with orlistat by doctors to control obesity
Rimonabant (Acomplia®), a cannabinoid receptor antagonist that will be available in 2006
Oxyntomodulin
Fluoxetine hydrochloride (Prozac)
and others

Answer 4

All that diet crap is just crap, in my opinion, ranging from ineffective to dangerous. The worst is the stuff that claims to "raise your metabolism"...its does that by increasing your heart rate and therefore blood pressure...which is why Ephedra was pulled from the market for instance. People's hearts were coming apart at the seams.

If you wanna eat less, drink more water, use smaller plates, talk while you eat, eat slower. Don't kill yourself with brightly colored death tablets.

Answer 5

uhh not safe at all...you are suppressing your appetite which means you are denying your body of the nutrition that it needs

Answer 6

Hoodia is very safe. As long as it's real hoodia.

Answer 7

If it contains Ephedra, VERY unsafe. You may end up killing someone on that stuff!