Dr Ken Harvey has publicly slammed weight loss products stating that a majority of the 1,000+ weight loss products on sale in Australia are nothing but scams.
Dr Harvey, says claims that diet pills can help people lose weight fast after bingeing are "crazy and dangerous".Some companies are promoting fat loss products that claim its pills remove fat and carbs from food. For example, it claims someone could eat a Big Mac and fries and take five pills to undo it. A biscuit could be undone with one pill.
"It's crazy, dangerous stuff and very appealing if you like your Big Mac and fries. But there's no evidence it works and it"s really dangerous from a public health point of view"says Harvey. He goes on to add that many products on the market "certainly rip people off ", were straight-out scams, or diverted people away from weight loss programs that actually work. They're just scams."There's real harm in terms of turning people away from more evidence-based (care) ... we've got an obesity epidemic on our hands."
At Hybrid we know there are no short cuts, good health means good nutrition, nutrition has so many affects on the body and mind, we need to eat quality foods for positve health. The issue should not be weight, it should be health, pills will not give you you daily nutritional requirements, only quality foods can do this. Yes we do sell supplements but we promote them as only that, a supplement to assist with performance and recovery, to assist with sound nutritional eating, not to replace it.
Now be careful, if a trainer ever insists you need to be on a particular diet pill/supplement to help with fat loss then reflect back on this article, its probably a scam!! Oh and there are trainers in our area who work like this.