How old do you have to be to buy diet pills?
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Diet pills are not the way to go to lose weight. You are putting an unnatural substance into your body and you will get so many other side effects, that the benefit is not worth the risk. You need to keep your health, not destroy it with diet pills. There are other supplements that do the same thing, but are not dangerous. One I'm using is called Abs + by Genuine Health. And it uses green tea extract and CLA, which is a natural fatty acid, that revs up the body's metabolism to help you lose your weight faster. But no pill will make you lose the weight totally. There is no other way than to eat regular meals, no second helpings, with good snacks in between. People who skip meals start up the body's starvation response and you end up storing more fat than you lose. So you have to eat at least every 5 hours, and then stop all night eating by 8 p.m. You can drink fluids up till bed time but no more eating after that time. You see, losing weight is a lifetime process. You can't take diet pills only, you have to change your entire system of how you eat, what you eat and you have to move more. You can't do it without some form of exercise. All it takes is simple walking 30 minutes a day. If the weather is bad, put on the music and move for 30 minutes each day. Combined with not over-eating, a little exercise daily, and safe supplements, such as the one I mentioned, you'll get your goal. But anything that'll do it for you fast, will backfire. And you will be twice as heavy as you were before. You'll be very sorry you did it that way. Get "You On A Diet" by Drs. Oz and Roizen and Bob Greene's "Total Body Makeover" "Diet for Life" books. Now that's the way to do it!
NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published July 8 2004
Diet pills consumed in large quantities by teen girls seeking athletic look
by Mike Adams
Diet pills are now being consumed by an alarming number of teenagers -- both girls and boys -- in an attempt to achieve an athletic body look without actually having to engage in sports. A frightening 34% of teen girls are now popping these diet pills, a figure that's even higher than males.
It's part of the great American culture of instant results without effort: pop a few diet pills and get a sleek, athletic body without any real effort. Or that's how the marketing hype goes. In reality, pills can't possibly give you an athletic look. Even worse, they compromise your health and are especially risky to the bone development of young adults.
What these teenagers really need to be doing, if they want thin bodies, is to give up soft drinks, pizza, alcohol, fast food, snack chips, fried foods, refined carbohydrates, and other forms of processed foods. Doing so would radically alter the shape of their bodies, even if they didn't engage in hard-core athletics.
But of course that's a lot to ask from today's teenagers, it seems. If you want to experience extreme frustration, just try to explain nutrition to a 14 year old girl.
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U HAVE TO BE 18 FOR THE GOOD PILL'S FROM THE DOCTOR
No age requirement. You can buy them like you buy vitamins.
FIRST...ALWAYS CHECK WITH YOUR DOCTOR.EAT SENSIBLE. YOUR WEIGHT NEEDS TO COME OFF SLOWLY..I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE...EXERCISE IF U CAN.CHANGE YOUR EATING HABITS.THERE IS NO MAGIC PILL THAT WILL TAKE OFF THE WEIGHT AND KEEP IT OFF.
If you have to ask what age do you have to be your not old enough...
I am not against you at all. I used to weigh 330 now I am holding on to 168 and my weight goes up a little and down.
Take your NEW WAY of life one day at a time...
Look at yourself completely naked and look at Whats good about you. Start with your hair and go to face neck etc...
Then look really at what you want to improve with a measuring tape in hand.
Note in book
Neck
Breast
waist
hips
thighs
calfs
ankles
feet
Yes once you get started YOU will loose weight even in your feet! By April you can loose 60-70 pound EASY minus diet pills like drinking LOTS of water...2 oranges at night...No sugar sweet in low and taking charge of you!
Read Dr Phils son Jay Mcgraw book Life stragies for teens
I beleieve in you!
Go get out there and kick this weight problems butt!
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