Written by Stuart Stevens | Monday, 28 May 2007
People are the wising up to the fact that herbal and natural weight loss products are either useless or extremely dangerous and at Ukmedix News would like to think that our campaign to highlight this is slowly bearing fruit. The weight loss supplements industry is now a multi million pound business which relies on slick advertising and suspect customer endorsements. The promises that these companies make are excessive and dupe many people into buying the products.

Weight loss supplements fall into two different categories. Firstly there are those that really do nothing. They are just a nice tasting tea and boring harmless pill but nevertheless you have wasted your money on something that will not help you. The other category are those that worries us far more at Ukmedix News. They consist of weight loss supplements that have dangerous chemicals and compounds in them that have not been properly tested by the relevant health authorities. We constantly come across reports of weight loss medication containing sibutramine which is a powerful appetite suppressant and must only be used under careful supervision. Because sibutramine is currently only allowed legally to be sold in the weight loss drug Reductil anyone else who uses it in their weight loss supplements is breaking the law.
What a lot of companies have been doing is putting sibutramine in their weight loss supplements but not informing the consumer that they are doing so. This is extremely dangerous as sibutramine can cause heart attacks if it is given to the wrong people and if it is not used properly. Reductil that contains sibutramine is only allowed to be given to patients on the production of a prescription and it is essential that you receive good advice and that you get regular check ups when using this very effective appetite suppressant.