We ask ourselves how we got to the point of being overweight? The simplest answer is over intake of calories. You get a surplus of calories when you go overboard the recommended dietary allowance. Excess calories are converted energy reserves or simply fat and starch.



Continously overeating and taking in more than the RDA for calories can result to being overweight and later on obesity.

Though this is the general theory of weight gain and obesity, there are still several factors that affect it such as hereditary genes, existing health problems that cause complications, day to day physical activity and physical limitations.

The rate of burning calories is metabolism. Everyone has their own capacity to burn food and metabolism is relative. Individual caloric needs are what we call Basal Metabolic Rate.

Nowadays, the most common cause of obesity is lifestyle. With modern technology, we don’t need to move around much. But as our lives seem to progress, it is ironic that the environment we live in seems to become more and more stressful. The stress brought about by the environment causes us to live less physically active and stationary lifestyles.

And with more time dedicated to work, even good eating habits are taken for granted. Here comes the junk that we call fast food. So with no activity, increased stress levels and higher junk food intake, overweight and obesity looms in the background.

There are a lot of obesity related health risks. Health risks associated with obesity are diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, serious heart conditions, fatty liver, heart failure, dementia, gallstones and osteoarthritis. The physical problems as well as health problems causes obese people to fall in a downward spiral of weight gain problems.

What is the best practice to lose weight? The stereotypical answer is diet and exercise. But if we are not the masters of self-control? This is the reason why we need to take supplements.

There are weight loss pills and appetite suppressants that can help us burn fat and reduce on calorie intake. Appetite suppressants reduce appetite and increase satiety. In a clinical sense, appetite suppressants work by making the body release more noradrenaline. This is the hormone that says the body is full. Other appetite suppressants act with natural inhibitors.

There are numerous ways on how weight loss pills work. Some decrease fat absorption and others work as fat reducers by increasing metabolic rates. Some claim to work in combination as fat burners, appetite suppressants and muscle builders.

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