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Fat Blockers Side Effects
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Summary:
Fat blockers named Xenical or Olistat will now be available as an over-the-counter medication called Alli. The use of fat blockerst guarantees the user gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea and excessive gas and bloating. |
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Fat Blockers
Fat blockers are one of the worst concepts ever to come out of the
research labs of pharmacuetical companies. Fat is essential to human
health and the use of fat blockers will create many health
concerns.
Because the public has been misinformed about the connection between
eating fat and weight gain, on the surface, fat blockers seem like a good
idea. Eating too many calories, whether from protein, carbohydrates or
fats is the main cause of weight gain. For some, it's simply eating too
many carbohydrates.
Xenical, aka Orlistat has been given to many patients who are without
the discipline to eat less food as if it were a magic pill. Fat
blockers will cause unwanted gastrointestinal symptoms in almost all
cases. The reason for this is undigested fats passing through the small
intestine without being broken down (digested) in a specific amount of
time will begin to spoil and cause the creation of gas. Additional
symptoms include diarrhea, greasy stools and leakage. This will happen
everyday the fat blocker is taken.
We have know of this problem because of its frequency in patients who
have had their gall bladder removed. The gall bladder is a muscular
storage sack to hold the liver produced digestive enzyme called bile.
When the body senses the presence of fat in food, bile is squeezed into
the food as it enters the small intestine. Without a gall bladder, the
liver still produces bile, but secretes small amounts into the small
intestine 24 hours each day. Not only can this be irritating to the
small intestine, but there will never be enough quantity of bile to
assist the digestion of the fat content of any average meal. Patients
without their gall bladder historically suffer from excess gas and
diarrhea. The answer for those without a gall bladder is to take a
digestive enzyme with each meal to assist in the timely digestion of
fats.
Avoidance of fats is not the solution because of the importance of fat in many biochemical function in the human body.
For those overweight, the solution is not the avoidance of fats or
attempting to block them. A very low fat vegetarian diet, a low
carbohydrate/good fats diet or eating less is the solution for weight
loss.
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