Are Weight Loss Pills Safe?
The appeal of a weight loss pill that will help you reach your ideal weight without killing yourself at the gym or starving yourself in the kitchen is definitely hard to resist.
But are these miracle pills and products really going to be able to lighten anything but your wallet? And, more importantly, are they a safe alternative for trusty diet and exercise?
Despite all these plaguing questions, there are still a surprisingly large amount of weight-loss pills that are available at your local drugstore, supermarket or health food store, with even more options are available online.
We did some research to help give you a closer look at some of the most common ingredients in weight-loss pills and what they will and won’t do for you.
Fat Blockers
This is one of the newest trends in the diet industry, including ingredients that have shown to halt the absorption of fat into the body, therefore reducing the amount of fat that you absorb from the food that you eat. Products like Alli and Xenical employ this method of weight loss 
and have been shown to have favorable results.
However, the US Food and Drug Administration has just started investigating some complaints of liver injury relating to these products. The ingredient chitosan has not been linked to these liver complaints, and instead looks to be a safe way to decrease your fat absorption.
Metabolism Boosters
Boosting your metabolism is definitely the most common way to lose weight, with the most ingredients that have shown potential to help you lose weight. Ingredients such as green tea, ginseng tea, and conjugated linoleic acid are all found on the labels of many weight loss pills.
Because this is the route your body most often takes when you lose weight without a supplement’s help, these are the safest ingredients. Just be careful when you see large amounts of stimulators like caffeine that can be detrimental to your health.
Appetite Decreasers
Ever since smoking was found to be a deadly way to curb our cravings, there was a hole in the market for an ingredient that would halt our never ending appetites.
Initially, this hole was filled with the dangerous 
ephedra, until the FDA found ephedra to cause heart attack, stroke, and even death. But since then, research has shown that ingredients like chromium can safely decrease your appetite and help you build muscle.
Thanks to a constant demand for weight loss pills, there has been an influx of research done on ingredients to help us achieve and maintain a healthier weight. Because of this research, there are many options that are both safe and effective.