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Diet Patches Too Good To Be True?
by Dianne Ronnow
With the obesity epidemic that is
going on today, a diet patch seems like it could be
a miracle cure, but are diet patches too good to be
true?
A diet patch is something like a
bandage that you place somewhere on your body that is
supposed to help you melt the pounds off by suppressing
the appetite and increasing the metabolism. Often the
ingredients are the same as those found in weight loss
pills, but the ingredients in the patch enter the body
through the skin.
Sticking on a diet patch sounds
convenient and easy, but do diet patches really work?
There has been several major diet
patch scams in the news lately. These scandals have
made people question whether diet patches or even patches
in general are effective at all.
There is no doubt that some kinds
of patches work well. Many prescription medicines are
now administered in patch form, as well as nicotine
transdermal patches, which are given to people who are
trying to quit smoking.
The skin on our body is actually
an organ that enables some things to enter the body,
and blocks others. There are capillary networks in the
skin that allow certain substances to enter the bloodstream.
These networks can help deliver medications found in
the patches.
According to scientists, some drugs
have the right properties to penetrate the skin and
are potent enough to be effective at low doses. These
drugs, such as the drug scopolamine, used to treat motion
sickness, can be delivered transdermally (through the
skin). Technical advances in the last 20-30 years are
making patches a much more common form of medicine delivery,
and many are saying that it will be the method choice
for the future, because they have controlled-release.
Instead of dumping a high concentration
of the drug into the blood stream at once, which then
slowly drops to a very low level at which time the patient
takes another dose, a controlled-release system, such
as a patch, keeps the drug at a constant and safe level
in the blood stream.
So, while patches can be an effective
form of delivery for medicines and even herbs, the question
still persists, do diet patches work?
The answer all depends on what ingredients
are used and how they are prepared. Each company's diet
patch is different. As we can tell from all the diet
patch scandals, many are totally ineffective because
of the way they are manufactured or the herbs and ingredients
used in them. Be very careful before you purchase any
diet patch.
There are diet patches that are
very effective, as many people who have lost weight
with them can tell you. But a diet patch alone, without
any change in a poor diet or unhealthy lifestyle, will
probably have little effect. On the other hand, a good
diet patch could possibly be just the incentive a person
needs to make the changes to a healthier lifestyle that
promotes weight loss-- by adding energy, suppressing
the appetite, and spurring the metabolism into action.
Try a good quality diet patch out
and see if it works for you. It may just be the thing
you needed to help you start losing weight and moving
into a healthier lifestyle.
By Dianne Ronnow
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