FDA Warns Consumers to Stop Using Hydroxycut Products

An extremely popular weight loss supplement (Hydroxycut) was pulled off the market and the FDA is warning consumers to stop using it. The supplement is linked to one death and other health problems including liver injury, jaundice, kidney failure and other cardiovascular diseases. I am not sure how effective Hydroxycut is but there were about 9 million packages sold last year. Unfortunately there is no magic pill for weight loss and many are dangerous or ineffective. My former trainer’s client did advertisement for Hydroxycut and he claimed that her weight loss results were due to his meal plan and she didn’t really use the product.

My cousin called me yesterday and she mentioned that she is dieting and was starving. I don’t understand why people go on diets and starve themselves? There are so many things wrong with that! One of the main reasons is that as soon as you stop the diet, you gain the weight back because you start eating the same way you were in the past. It’s about living a healthy lifestyle, not starving yourself. The sad part is that there are all these diets out there and people think they need to diet and it's often not about a lifestyle change. There was this man on Oprah this week who weighed over 1000 pounds, he lost about 1000 pounds and was at a comfortable weight of 198 pounds (for about 1 day). As soon as he got to his goal weight of 198 pound he went out and ate hotdogs, french fries, basically a lot of crap and gained all the weight back, and then some. Unfortunately the average American does not know very much about nutrition and there is a lot if ignorance surrounding micronutrients. Micronutrients are carbohydrates (carbs), fats, and protein, eating a balanced meal should include all of those micronutrients. It’s not about eliminating fats or carbs from your diet (unfortunately a lot of people don't even know what a carb is). It’s not about starving yourself or dieting, getting to your desired weight and as soon as you do, gain it all back because you go back to old eating habits It’s about a lifestyle change!