Rapid Weight Loss

Dr. Amazo's formula not only dissolves fat, but gives you energy! Get rid of a lifetime of stored toxins and waste products that cause you to be fat! Lose 10 pounds in 10 days without dieting or exercise!

Believe these claims or not, rapid weight loss and diet products make them constantly, and even more bold claims.

Hogwash! But even though they mostly aren't true, Americans pay over 40 billion dollars a year on pills, programs and weight loss products that simply don't work. Failure doesn't stop new diets from springing up out of the wood work, or people from trying them. Remember Joe Frazier's diet, chew the food but spit it out? He bragged it made him full and gave him all the nutrients without the fat. See, mimes had the secret to weight loss all the time.

Then there are the magic pills, creams, and diet supplements that guarantee to burn pounds without exercise, guaranteed. No that wasn't a typo, they mention the word guarantee so often it starts to lose meaning. And when they don't mention precisely what is involved in the guarantee it doesn't have any meaning. It's simply a tricking people to think the product works.

Studies show that Very Low Calorie Diets, or VLCDs, work. People heard this and now try them at home. The issue is that's not how VLCDs were designed. When people are so much overweight it becomes a health problem, VLCDs were made to come to the rescue. These diets often include eating half or less of their daily caloric intake. They're designed to be implemented in medically supervised closed settings, where people can't cheat. When used outside of a closed setting, often a clinic called a “fat farm,†these diets can be dangerous to the dieters health and will generally not work because of binge eating after a period of partial starvation.

Rapid weight loss, if it works, creates a number of problems with the body. Gallstones, dehydration, malnutrition and even protein poisoning can develop as a result of the severe caloric starvation involved in VLCDs.

Rapid weight loss is a great idea. But it's not for most people, and should be administered and supervised by qualified medical professionals.