Thursday, 26 March 2009

Truth About Fat Burners!

Fat Burners, do they work and will they work for you?

With so many fat-burning products on the market and all offering the fastest results possible yet always seem to fail you, which do you choose from? Which are safe to use? Which are hype and which really work?

Many people will spend their hard earned cash on expensive fat burning products that are going to fall short of what they promise. Most fat burners or thermo system, metabolic booster are total crap and the ones that do work contain drugs such as ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin.

Which are all very powerful stimulants and YES they are drugs. These can be found in most if not all fat burning supplements on the market. So right about know you might be thinking yeah but not in the herbal form supplements. Yes in the herbal forms too.

What many supplement companies do is take the herbal forms of these stimulants and put then into the fat burner market their product as herbal but they are just as bad as the rest. Caffeine comes from a plant call guarana; ephedrine comes from a plant called ma huang and aspirin from white willow bark. Fat burners have a diuretic affect, which leads to loss of water, which can lead to dehydration, they also play on and raise your heart rate that’s why when taking then you will start to sweating sooner into your workouts.

Fat burners also suppress you apatite by interrupting the neuron transmitters in your brain, leaving you feeling less hungry which has a negative effect on you nutritional intake by missing meals and leading to the body storing fat.

Some fat burners do work BUT only in the short term NOT the long term that is why people who take them see some short-term results but then don’t see the long-term results, which they want, this is because fat burners are designed to raise your metabolism by 10% per day which is great if you are a fitness competitor or bodybuilder on a very low caloric diet getting ready for a show and need to shift those last few pounds of body fat.

However they are not necessary or going to work for the average person looking to drop 10, 20 or even 30 pound of body fat. The best way to lose that weight is through correct diet and exercise. Take your hard earned cash and invest in working with a personal trainer to raise you metabolism safely with no drugs or side effects that are going to be harmful to your heart, blood pressure, brain function etc.

Fat burners are here and they are here to stay so it is important that if you are going to use them you first know what you are taking and second how they will affect you. Please be aware of the fat burning supplements you are putting into your body and how it can affect you and realize they only have short term effects so don’t fall into the marketing trap.

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