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Written by Roys
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Sunday, 06 August 2006 |
Do Diet Patches Really Work? The new controversial dieting technique out now is the diet patch.Throw on a diet patch, and watch the weight melt away, no matter what you eat. So let's talk about diet patches. Let's forget about whether the various diet patches actually deliver the ingredients they claim to, and whether those ingredients are effectively delivered through the skin transdermally. Unless you feel like wasting your money and making someone else rich, give all diet patches a miss!
Although there are many different types of patches on the market, most contain a blend of four main ingredients...guarana, chromium, garcinia cambogia and fucus vesiculosus. Unfortunately, there really isn't anything revolutionary in the average diet patch. Some ingredients, like chromium and guarana, although moderately helpful, have subtle effects and will not lead to much in the way of weight loss without accompanying changes to diet and lifestyle. Ingredients like garcinia cambogia and fucus vesiculosus don't have much going for them in the way of proven results.
So... Are diet patches worth experimenting with? I don't think so, and neither does the US Federal Trade Commission. They recently forced the makers of the As Seen on T.V. "Peel Away the Pounds" diet patch to pay $1,000,000 in consumer redress (for making false and unsubstantiated claims about the weight loss effectiveness their diet patch). In other words, the makers of "Peel Away the Pounds" were unable to provide the FTC with any scientifically viable evidence that their diet product actually did anything at all.
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