Health Care Clinic

with the arrival of summer is taken up each year obsession to lose weight and get abruptly called ‘Ten Corps’. We intend to burn, the sooner the better, all fats and excess winter. The problem is that sometimes, we use improper means to do so.

During the months before the summer, this obsession of many people results in a large increase in sales of miraculous reducing creams, gels, firming, fat burners of all kinds, moderators of appetite, energy bars, meal replacements, and even , laxatives. All of these products, according to data provided by the European Medical Institute of Obesity, are potentially dangerous because of the lack of information about them, and pseudoscientific studies that guarantee, in most cases wrong, makeup or simply false.

What these products do not say is that they can be very harmful to health, since most of them rely on substitutes for meals or appetite suppression. Before using these products, it is advisable to turn to an expert who values them and confirm that they do not conflict with others that we are already taking. Of course, people pregnant, hypertensive, diabetic or thyroid problems should avoid these fat burners.

The problem is that more and more people fall into the trap of these miracle products. In fact, a recent study of the Official College of Pharmacists of Madrid, 4 out of 5 Spanish who want to lose weight using these products. And even more data can be given: according to the reports of the Confederation of the Spanish Consumers and Users spend over two billion euros a year on products to improve appearance.

In addition, substances that make these products are often true that eliminate unwanted weight … but not fat, but muscle and body water. Most fat burners using excessive amounts of caffeine or protein to stimulate insulin in our body, at the expense of our muscle mass and water it. They can also cause other detrimental side effects such as insonmio, hyperactivity, irregular heartbeat, excessive vasoconstriction … among many others.

The danger of the miraculous \ ‘fat burners \’

Also substances such as L-carnitine and ephedrine have their side effects. In the case of L-Carnitine has been shown to be a hoax, and that to produce a significant lowering effect on our body would have to ingest a very large amount of this substance, and in the case of ephedrine, has retired of all food supplements, and has even led to consumers chest pain, seizures, fever, tachycardia, headache, hallucinations, hypertension, nausea and vomiting …

Green tea, taken without caffeine, has proven to be a good natural fat burner, without adverse effects on our health.