The Real Deal Behind Diet Pills

Obesity often requires long-term treatment to promote and sustain weight loss. As in other chronic conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, use of prescription drugs may be appropriate for some people. While most side effects of prescription weight loss drugs are mild, serious complications have been reported.

More than 90% of the time, diet pill companies just slide by and fail to include clinically proven weight loss ingredients in the clinically proven amounts. It’s easy to see why so many people don’t trust the diet pill industry. But, now you can get the truth by reading our unbiased diet pill reviews, written by medical professionals!

Alli/Xenical®

The only diet pill approved by the FDA, Alli is the over the counter version of prescription weight loss drug Xenical®. Both types use the drug orlistat as the active ingredient of weight loss. Instead of relying on plant extracts, orlistat has been tested and approved by the FDA as a weight loss medication. Orlistat is designed to block dietary fat absorption in the small intestine. It binds to active enzyme gastrointestinal lipase, which breaks down dietary fat for absorption, and inhibits its function. This inhibition blocks the uptake of up to 30% ingested fat which is then excreted as waste. Blocking fat absorption also blocks certain essential nutrients uptake as well, so those who take orlistat should also take a multivitamin daily to ensure proper nutrition. Side effects of taking orlistat are more severe when the intake of dietary fats is high. Oily spotting, flatulence, urgent bowel movements and fatty or oily stools are the most common side effects.

Hydroxycut

Hydroxycut is one of the most heavily advertised diet pills, boasting quick weight loss without a lot of effort. Hydroxycut is a combination of ten ingredients, dominated by caffeine and hydroxy tea (200 and 414 mg respectively). Hydroxy tea is similar to
green tea and is used because of its supposed ability to increase metabolism and suppress appetite. Other ingredients in Hydroxycut include green tea extract, oolong and white tea as well as a plant extracts from Garcinia cambogia and Gymnema sylvestre. Green tea is said to have “thermogenic” properties in the body which equates to using more calories to generate heat. EGCG and caffeine in the green tea supposedly induce the body to burn more calories in daily expenditure. However, according to new research, the increasing thermogeneis is merely due to the caffeine content of green tea.

When Can I Eat After My Workout?

The information about not eating after a workout is completely wrong. Every responsible source in bodybuilding and athletics recommends that you eat after training, and preferably within 45 minutes (maybe up to 60) after a workout. This period, known as the golden hour, is when the muscles absorb the most nutrients and when glycogen, an energy reserve in your muscles, is replaced most efficiently. The actual composition of the post-workout meal is a matter of some debate; for optimal glycogen replacement, most people recommend carbohydrates, but a certain amount of protein (at least 10 percent of the meal) is needed for muscle repair and growth.

There is a window of time about 20-60 minutes after you exercise in which your muscles will readily accept the carbohydrates and protein that you consume and suck them up to be stored away as precious energy and building blocks for recovery. But if you wait too long after exercising to eat, your body become less likely to use what you eat as fuel and recovery, and more likely to run out of energy during your next exercise session, whether later in the day or even the next day.

This is why the ideal source of protein to eat after your workout is whey protein powder. Just mix it with some type of liquid (most often water) and you got yourself a drinkable source of protein.

A whey protein shake will be digested by your body much quicker than a solid food for two reasons:

Liquid meals digest faster than solid food meals.
Whey protein is the fastest digesting form of protein there is.

This is what makes whey protein pretty much the official choice of most people as their post workout meal protein source.

In addition to food or a meal replacement shake, you can also take Branch Chain Amino Acids (BCAA’s) and Glutamine after your workout. BCAA’s are necessary for building skeletal muscle and for energy in muscle cells. Glutamine has been shown to spare lean body mass during stress, improving the immune system, and increasing growth hormone levels.

Isotonic Drink Benefits

Sweating is the way in which the body maintains its core temperature at 37 degrees centigrade. This results in the loss of body fluid and electrolytes (minerals such as chloride, calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium) and if unchecked will lead to dehydration and eventually circulatory collapse and heat stroke. The effect of fluid loss on the body is as follows.

An isotonic beverage is a sport drink whose osmolarity is between 250 mOsm/L and 340 mOsm/L. VEROFIT Isotonic has an osmolarity of 315 mOsm/L. And what is osmolarity? It is the concentration of particles in the blood. In this case, we are looking for a similar concentration of particles in the drink to what is found in the bloodstream( the human body has an average osmorality of 250 mOsm/L and 340 mOsm/L), so that its absorption will be faster and will require less extra energy from the body for its assimilation.

sotonic sports drinks - Lucozade Sport etc. - provide fluid, energy and electrolyte replenishment. These components are depleted during exercise due primarily to an increased perspiration level - we literally sweat these elements out out.

Of course fluid (water) replacement is important - if water isn't replaced in our exercising system we rapidly dehydrate and in extreme cases exercise must cease completely. In more normal cases exercise performance dips far below an optimal level.

Electrolytes are essentially salts lost in sweat. Replacing them will aid the digestion and osmosis of fluid absorbed into body's working muscles -
without them the fluid within the drink will not be fully absorbed and the effects of dehydration will still soon rear their ugly head.