Laxatives and Weight Loss
Written by praveen on April 4, 2008 – 8:00 am - 41 People Read this!
Nowadays with the help of more and more advertisements we came to know that laxatives and weight loss pills are associated with each other. These advertisements claim that laxatives are the one to help reducing fat. But there are some specific procedures to have laxatives and weight loss pills and not following those procedures the results will be drastically different. Often health experts face patients coming up with issues like “I have been under treatment wherein there are laxatives and weight loss pills but instead of losing weight I have put on more and I’m awfully feeling bad and uncomfortable”. With the use of laxatives one does not lose fat but loses water and other waste products. In order to have a fast weight reduction laxatives and weight loss pills are highly used but since they are not used properly so as a resultant they have been harming the body.
Alongside using laxatives and weight loss pills it is also needed to have enough food so as to make these laxatives work properly without causing any harm to the body. While using laxatives it is needed to have consumed sufficient amount of calories in order to remove the waste products through the intestine. And if not done so then it becomes extremely painful for the body causing it to tend to any side effect. Another big problem which arises when laxatives are used is when a person is taking laxatives and at the same time the person is undergoing some other medication then those medicines become less effective in the presence of laxatives in the body. Often laxatives are used by many to make the stool motion normal, but it is not at all good for anyone to use laxatives on a daily basis and rather it can be harmful.
Involvement of water
When laxatives and weight loss pills are used, as a side effect it releases a lot of water from the body. As a result what happens is our body retains water again. At the end of the day it comes out to be that the use of laxatives makes the body carry more water than what it used to carry before.
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