Diet Pill- Alli
My co-workers niece works in the shoe department at Nordstroms which is a large department store. Last week something strange happened. When it was her turn to check on the restrooms, she noticed that there was a lot of poop on the floor. She had never seen anything like it! It wasn't baby poop either. She started thinking, what could it be?? And then it hit her. She is studying to be a dietitian and she knew the drug Alli had been approved and placed in stores all over. She figured it probably had to do with this new drug as this looked like the side effect of this new drug.
If you haven't heard of Alli, it is a new over-the-counter, FDA approved, weight loss pill. The pill works by preventing your body from absorbing some of the fat you eat. You are supposed to follow a low fat diet to prevent side effects from happening which include:
gas with oily spotting
loose stools
more frequent stools that may be hard to control
Alli can be great, but, it doesn't mean that you can eat all the fast food, ice cream and cake you want. Diet and exercise is still important, otherwise, you might be one of these women not being able to control your bowels while shopping.
All kidding aside, the drug is a joke. It continues to feed the masses with hopes of a pill solving their weight problems. The problem by now involves ore than just managing calories. To sum up a few hundred research articles into one paragraph:
People sleep less and are more stressed. This causes chemical changes leading to excessive eating and INFLAMMATION. This causes weight gain which perpetuates the problem. Companies spend BILLIONS of dollars to make you want to eat their stuff. Short on time, you eat crap. All of this leads to multiple diseases that will eventually drain our economy.
It's scary but true.