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We ask ourselves how we got to the point of being overweight? The most basic scientific explanation is caloric imbalance. If you go beyond the suggested RDA for your age and weight, then that means excess calories. Excess calories are converted energy reserves or simply fat and starch.



Obesity happens when people chronically eat too much as more and more calories get stored in the body.

There are other factors affecting weight gain and obesity and these need more attention such as genetic makeup and pre-existing medical conditions.

Metabolism is the relative rate of consuming and burning the food that we eat. Metabolic rates vary from person to person. This person to person difference is what we call Basal Metabolic Rate.

Our modern lifestyles and the combination of what we do are now the most common causes of obesity. As our society progresses, technology makes our lives easier thus reducing the need for us to move around. With all the progress and advancement, the environment seems to be more stressful. With stress levels at a high and cost of living at its peak, office workers tend to work more on desks, sleep less, and eat more.

Proper diet is taken for granted with enough stress at hand. There is little time left for preparing homemade food and junk fast food seems like a common option. Weigh gain and obesity results from this type of lifestyle.

It doesn’t stop with obesity because there are other risks associated with it. To mention a few, they are type 2 diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, serious heart conditions, fatty liver, heart failure, dementia, gallstones and osteoarthritis. With the inconvenience of physical limitations and health problems that are fatal, obesity causes depression and tends to be chronic.

How then can we effectively lose weight? Almost everyone will say diet and exercise. But if we are not the masters of self-control? Here is where supplements come into play.

There are weight loss pills and appetite suppressants that can help us burn fat and reduce on calorie intake. Appetite suppressants give the feeling of fullness thus reducing our tendency to eat. In clinical terms, appetite suppressants causes the body to release more noradrenaline. This is the hormone that says the body is full. Other appetite suppressants work by acting on the endo-cannabinoid system.

There are numerous ways on how weight loss pills work. Some pills work as fat burners while others work by controlling the body’s capacity to absorb fat. Some pills have multiple effects as fat burners, appetite suppressants and muscle builders.