This is the time of year when the diet and slimming industry at their busiest – New year Resolutions in most cases are centred around self-improvement with losing weight second only to quitting smoking.

A new product that has just emerged with a significant amount of publicity is Capsiplex, the so called chili diet pill.

Capsiplex is combination of chili and capsicum – the producers (Scotland based Advanced Health Limited) claim the diet pill can burn as many calories as you would from Jogging for twenty-five minutes or briskly walking for an hour and a half

The makers also claim that in clinical trials subjects  burned 278 more calories that regular exercise and 12 times more calories after exercise.

The advertising blurb also claim that it has a wide usage in Hollywood with high profile celebrities such as Britney Spears, Brad Pitt and J-Lo amongst its users.

How Does The Chili Pill Work

The two main ingredients included are chili and capsicum.

Capsicum Extract, it is claimed, can suppress appetite and also raise the metabolic rate, burn excess calories, reduce body mass and reduce body fat.

Chili has been linked to weight loss for decades – the problem until now is the ingesting of a high concentration without causing gastric irritation. A special coating has now been introduced to eradicate this problem.

Does It Work

The problem with Capsiplex is that it is billed as new and revolutionary. A new product it may be but its hardly revolutionary.

The marketing material does make some pretty compelling claims with regard to scientific proof without actually providing any real evidence of this.

Until some tangible evidence is released look elsewhere.

Other Diet Pills To Consider

Hoodia Gordonii has been available to buy over the counter for a little over 10 years – there have been numerous scientific reports supported by clinical evidence about its effect on suppressing the appetite and reducing calorie intake.

Hoodia is the most widely used natural diet pill currently available

More about Hoodia Gordonii

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Bioforce Helix Slim Drops is a completely natural liquid weight loss formula.

A simple solution contained in bottled and then added to water and drunk once a day before a meal, either before lunch or dinner.

It is suggested that Helix Slim can suppress appetite and reduce the craving for the foodstuff that has a high sugar content.

One of the main ingredient contained in the formula is the extract from organically grown fresh Jerusalem Artichoke

The Jerusalem Artichoke has the ability or raise the body’s metabolism by producing energy and a feeling of being satisfied, without increasing glycerin levels.

How Does It Work

Keeping blood sugar levels under control is extremely necessary and essential for optimum health and well being – not just weight loss

Eating at varied times of the day without a proper digestion period, prevents food from being digested properly.

Calories are introduced to our body but not all nutrients are sufficiently digested, leading to an increase in hunger and appetite.

Also, eating processed or or foods that have some sort of chemical or artificial process may feel like they’ve quenched your hunger  at the time but have poor nutritional value.

This creates the possibility of snacking, to keep yourself going in between meals. Eating erratically can make your blood sugar swing from high to low.

The result of this is  sugar cravings as your body tries to compensate. Keeping your blood sugar levels under control can help to minimise sugar cravings and reduce the want or need for food.

Who Should Not Use Helix Slim

Expectant or nursing mothers should refrain from using for the duration.

Where To Buy Helix Slim Drops

Available at most health food stores and some high street chemists.

Alternative Appetite Suppressants

The most popular, widely discussed and universally disagreed on appetite suppressant is Hoodia Gordonii

Hoodia has centuries if not millennium’s of usage

Hoodia extract products are quite literally ten a penny and usually emanate from the United States.

Raw powder Hoodia products are few and far between – the UK does, however, have two premier products.

More about Hoodia

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On the whole, weight loss and diet products that go after the celebrity endorsement do not add value or or a large degree of credibility to the product – especially considering the fact that the usual practise involves a contract and a fairly large remuneration.

They do, however create brand awareness – but some products have gone slightly overboard and push the boundaries of legality somewhat, especially Hoodia based products.

This has been highlighted by Oprah Winfrey and her constant battle to remove her association with many USA focused Hoodia brands

Oprah Winfrey’s name has been used by many Hoodia branded diet pills over the last few years – Oprah has never stated or suggested that she has used a specific brand or indeed used any Hoodia product.

The UK suffers to a lesser a degree from the celebrity endorsement angle. The UK’s best selling diet pill, Lipobind is a keen advocate of the  familiar face and body promoting its product. Its closest rival, Proactol does not.

This is an interesting juxtaposition

Lipobind And Proactol, The Fat Binders

Lipobind and Proactol are both manufactured and distributed within Great Britain, both are natural fat binders and both can stop a portion of fat from food consumed from being digested.

Recently Lipobind have employed the services of Melinda Messenger, the former glamour model and now television presenter.

Melinda has reportedly lost a stone and half in recent months attributing her weight loss success to a more active lifestyle bourne out of her fitness regime required for Dancing on Ice.

Read How Lipobind Compared To Proactol

Phentramin-d is the new and supposedly improved version of the original product, Phentramin

The “d” is a reference to the inclusion of Dimethylpentylamine – a natural substance produced the geranium flower.

You would be forgiven for suffering from total confusion and unable to differentiate between a large majority of current diet pills currently originating from the United Staes that have similar sounding names – All, it seems wish to gain close association with Phentermine.

Phentermine is a prescription only appetite suppressant that can be prone to some pretty horrendous side effects – so why a natural based product would court this association is really rather strange. More about Phentermine

What Is Phentramin-D

An appetite suppressant that is available to purchase with Gp or doctor intervention that contains some fat burning ingredients – it not so different to the vast array of other similar sounding diet pills that are being trotted out currently.

The manufacturers and various other review websites try to draw similarities with Phentermine – and distance the product from Hoodia.

This again is rather strange tactic. Hoodia is largely and generally regarded as the most effective natural appetite suppressant in existence.

Phentramin-D Side Effects

Should not cause too much alarm or any side effects. Can on occasion cause headaches and maybe a slightly feeling nausea.

Where To Buy Phentramin-D

Purchasing seems exclusive to its US based website. May cause problem to UK customers as fat as after sales in concerned.

Alternatives To Phentramin-D

Phentermine is most likely alternative but it is only available via doctor prescription.

A more natural alternative is Hoodia Gordonii – one of the highest strength Hoodia diet pills available is Unique Hoodia.

Unique Hoodia is made from the pure and raw powder from the Hoodia plant.

More about Unique Hoodia

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Lose weight naturally is the Zotrim way – it has been the message for the last decade.

Now Zotrim are giving away FREE SAMPLES of their natural herbal weight loss aid – all you pay is the P&P.

Zotrim is one of the most familiar and trusted brands the UK has to offer and a world apart from some of the less convincing diet products that are been exported from the USA.

Free Zotrim Samples

It was sold predominantly via the high street in Boots the chemist, Superdrug and supermarket chains.

More recently they have introduced a new website to encourage online purchases and offer discounts for larger purchases.

To mark the occasion free 2 week samples are being offered to UK customers.

What Is Zotrim And How Does It Work

Zotrim is a  natural and herbal weight loss aid that is produced to reduce calorie intake by suppressing appetite before, during and after you eat and also providing a boost to energy levels giving the dieter extra incentive to burn calories for themselves through mobility.

The principle that Zotrim try to instill is less calories in and more calories out.

Does Zotrim Work

Zotrin has 8 independent documents existing dating back to 2001 with The British Food Journal and Kings College London among the authors – more recently Zotrim was positively featured on BBC’s Diet Clinic.

If you would like to participate in the free trial and receive a 2 week free Zotrim Sample. Visit the official website and sign up.

Participants must be 18 years of age or older and only one free sample per household.

Zotrim Free Samples

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Now that initial furore surrounding the new miracle diet pill, Alli, has subsided – feedback, customer success stories and experiences are starting to filter through into the media.

One fairly high profile Alli story is Kinga Karolczak – former housemate in Big Brother 2006.

In the autumn of 2008, Kinga’s weight had rocketed to a hefty 10st 3lb – for someone who is a shade over 5ft tall a size 14 looked very much a reality.

Previous attempts at dieting had not proved to be a success with generic diets such as the Cabbage Soup Diet and more commerial product such as Slimfast failing miserably.

Then in the Spring of 2009 Kinga was asked if she wanted to trial Alli Orlistat – the new over the counter diet pill that to date is the only commercially available diet product to be granted FDA (Food and Drugs Adminitration) approval.

In need of quick fix, Kinga agreed.

Alli Made My Body Leak Fat

Alli is produced by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKlie and has many positives surrounding it but one very embarrassing and rather unpleasant side effect may prove its undoing from a customer perspective.

Alli works by stopping a percentage of fat in food we eat from being absorbed and digested by the stomach.

This means the undigested fat must pass through the body, leading to the most unpleasant of side effects including flatulence and diarrhoea. Read more about Alli

Unabsorbed fat is similar to an orange goo – Alli has the unfortunate habit of expelling this when and where it pleases, often without much warning.

This Alli side effect has been dubbed the Alli Oops

Kinga suffered the dreaded Alli Oops and her overall experience  of the diet drug was not so much the weight loss but the embarrassing condition and the effect it had on her relationship with her boyfriend.

“One morning, a week into taking the tablets, I woke up with a huge, dark yellow, oily stain all over my sheets. It was all over the seat of my pyjamas, too. Fat, which looked exactly like olive oil, had been leaking out of my bottom. It was disgusting…. more oil would leak out every few days”

The Big Brother star also explained how Alli effected her sex life  “I was constantly breaking wind. My boyfriend  thought it was very funny, as he’d never heard me pass wind before, but it didn’t make me feel sexy. And the smell was unbearable”

Alli Availability

Alli available to buy over the counter in store at Boots and Superdrug and some regsitered online pharamcies.

For more information on Alli. Read Alli in the UK

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Very similar to Apidexin, Lipofuze tries just too hard to convince.

A high majority of diet pills (and in particular fat burners) that are predominantly targeted for American consumers do tend to prefer the wow factor compared to the more considered approach offered by UK focused diet products.

Lipofuze Fat Burner

As mentioned above – Lipofuze is not far removed from several other fat burners currently available – the message that leaps off the page on the official website is:

“Lose 10lbs in 10 days or your money back” – I wonder if any has actually received a refund!

Another marketing soundbite is consistent with US products is to try to eliminate the competition by using bold statements such as:

“Stop Wasting Time And Money On Products That Do Not Work”

Lipofuze Testimonials And Slimming Success Stories

Clinical evidence and scientific study is hinted at, although this appears to be very vague and does not go into finer detail.

The Diet success stories and testimonials are positive (as you would expect) on the Lipofuze website – more impartial and unbiased customer reviews are less forgiving.

Lipofuze Side Effects

Lipofuze is a fat burner, fat burner do have a habit of causing symptoms ranging from headaches, insomnia and a jittery feeling.

Is Lipofuze Recommended

Very hard to recommend

Where To Buy Lipofuze

The official website appears to be the only outlet – it is not available over the counter.

UK consumers may find purcahsing (and possibly returning) problematic as it is distributed from the United States.

Alternatives To Lipofuze

Proactol – a clinically proven and accredited fat binder that reduce fat digestion by up to a quarter.

Proactol is classed as a Medical Device Type 1 and available to buy direct without the need of a prescription.

More about Proactol

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Water retention is a problem for many dieters – the use of water tablets to try to expel excessive water from the body is an obvious but dangerous choice.

Water tablets are sometimes prescribed by GP’s or doctors to patients who suffer from high blood pressure (hypertention) – another use is by women with premenstrual fluid retention but only in the short term.

How Do Water Tablets Work

Water tablets eliminate sodium from the kidneys – a by product of this is the removal of excess water or water rention.

Can Water Tablets Cause Any Side Effects

The main aim of a water tablet is lower blood pressure – if you have a normal or low blood pressure to start with, the diurectic can lower the pressure even further until your blood pressure is at an excessively low level.

Are Water Tablets Good For Weight Loss

Not recommeded due to not only the possible negative health implications but also the fact that water that is expelled is usually gained as soon as the bosy starts to rehydrate.

Looking Elsewhere

If you are currently researching diet pills and considering purchasing a product – Read What Diet Pills To Buy, this should give you some insight into the marketplace.

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Hoodia is one of the most commonly sold diet pill products on the web. However, genuine or authentic Hoodia products are few and far between.

A majority of the Hoodia products that originate from the United States, claim authentic produce but deliver anything but!

Hoodia extract is not the best use of the Hoodia plant – Raw Hoodia powder is!

Unique Hoodia is premiere UK produced, South African sourced genuine raw Hoodia powder diet pill product containing the maximum allowable capacity per tablet – 460mg.

It is now availble to buy direct at reduced price using a special promational discount evoucher.

If are yet to sample the potency and effect of Hoodia powder visit the Unique Hoodia official website and input the voucher code SNAC10 at checkout to claim a 10% discount.

UniqueHoodia Website

The offer is available to persons aged 18 or over and for 3 months supply and above.

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Boots the Chemist stock a number of diet pills – some third party and some under there own brand.

Triple Action SlimAid is Boots own brand.

The suggested dosage is to take one tablet before any large meal.

The main points emphasised is that Triple Action SlimAid can help you feel fuller for longer, burn fat and help provide extra energy levels.

Boots also suggest that to gain maximum benefit the product should be used in conjunction with a calorie controlled diet.

Triple Action SlimAid Ingredients

The ingredient list is as follows:

Microcrystalline Cellulose, Potato Extract Standardised to 5% Proteinase Inhibators (P12), Green Tea Extract, Dicalcium Phosphate, Kelp (Ascophyllum Nodosum), ascorbic Acid, Silica, Anti-caking agent (Magnesium Stearate), Croscaremellose Sodium, Hydroxypropylmethylcellulose, Acacia Gum, Colour (Titanium Doxide), Nicotinamide, Calcium Pantothenate, Glycerin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Biotin, Cynaocobalamin

It does not look as though the creators had “natural” in mind when they set about formulating!

Any Side Effects

Should not pose too much of a health risk although the usual warnings that pregnant or nursing mothers should refrain.

Where To Buy

In store at Boots the Chemist

Is It Recommended

A very weak compound – not Boots at their best

Alternative Diet Products

For a guide to help choose an effective diet pill both prescription and over the counter – read Best Diet Pills

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