Alli Diet Pill Review
You can't have your cake and lose weight too, or can you with Alli?
Alli, is an over-the-counter diet pill that blocks fat absorption, or claims that you can. Although this diet supplement effectively blocks fat absorption, whether it effectively causes weight loss is heavily debated.
Precisely because it blocks fat absorption, Alli leads to loose, greasy stools and other gastrointestinal problems. There are definitely better diet pills out there.
How Alli Works For Weight Loss
When you ingest fat, an enzyme in your small intestine called lipase chemically breaks it down into usable parts. Without lipase, the fat cannot be used by your body.
By taking an oral dose of Alli, you coat your digestive tract, including your small intestine, with a derivative of lipstatin. Lipstatin then binds to the enzyme lipase, preventing it from working. So you can have your cake and lose weight too.
Or can you? Theoretically, Alli should be used in conjunction with a low-calorie diet and frequent exercise. However, by taking this diet supplement, much of your incentive to eat less and work out is gone. Why bother eating less, if you're not going to digest it anyway?
Dieters on Alli frequently end up ingesting more than their usual servings of cakes, cookies, chips and other greasy goodies. Why not?
They forget that Alli only blocks absorption of fat. Cookies, cakes, and chips contain both carbs and fat. Although the dieters do not digest the fat, they do digest the carbs. Sugar and white flour which can pack on massive pounds if you are not careful.
Is There Any Proof That Alli Works?
Generally, however, users do experience some weight loss. In a one year trial, 35.5% to 54.8% of subjects lost 5% or more of their body mass. Reading this, you should keep three things in mind. Firstly, a 5% weight loss can usually be achieved within the same length of time, without the aid of Alli.
Secondly, subjects lost fat as well as muscle mass. Thirdly, upon the cessation of Alli usage, many of the subjects regained the weight.
Why did they regain the weight? Because they had no incentive to reduce the amount they were eating, and learned nothing about how to lead a healthy lifestyle. Taking Alli does not encourage healthy eating or exercise, only temporary and mild weight loss.
What Are The Side Effects If Any?
The side effects of Alli are also quite unpleasant. Commonly referred to as "anal leakage", Alli causes the dieter to have frequent and urgent bowel movements that expel oily stools. Excessive flatulence is another side effect. To mitigate these side effects, ingest no more than 15 grams of fat per meal.
Furthermore, keep in mind that Alli's side effects lessen over time.
Because Alli deprives you of fat, it also deprives you of fat-soluble vitamins. Vitamins A, D, E and K, essential to the healthy functioning of your body, can no longer be absorbed. Low levels of vitamin D, for example, will impair calcium absorption and lead to osteoporosis.
If you are going to take Alli, be sure to take a multivitamin everyday.
Although this weight loss supplement may not be very effective as a short- or long-term diet pill, it does have some beneficial effects for health. For instance, it reduced the incidence of type 2 diabetes by 37%. Generally speaking though, Alli's not worth your money.
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