•Effectiveness: hydroxycut led to about a 5.5 pound (2.47kg) weight loss.
•Side effects: if you are sensitive to caffeine you may experience •anxiety, •jitteriness, •tremors, •nausea, •diarrhea, •irritability, •cardiovascular risk (removed in 2004), •hepatotoxicity (removed in 2009), •acute liver injury.
Green coffee bean extract
•Ingredients: •caffeine—burn fat in body, •chlorogenic acid—break carbohydrates in gut.
•Effectiveness: •minimize body mass index, •lower blood sugar level, •reduce blood pressure, •high in antioxidant.
•Side effects: •Some people may b allergic to green coffee beans, •chlorogenic acid may cause diarrhea.
Caffeine
•Origin: mostly found in coffee, green tea, dark chocolates, processed food, beverages.
•Effectiveness: burn more calories through a process of body heat called thermogenesis.
•Side effects: •anxiety, •nausea, •irritability, •insomnia (reduce quality of sleep).
♠NOTE: there is no need to take a supplements or pill containing caffeine best source is coffee and green tea.
Raspberry ketones
•Ingredients: found in raspberries.
•Effectiveness: •increase breakdown of fat, •increase level of hormone called adiponectin, 2%increase in weight loss over 8 weeks.
•Side effects: high dose of raspberry ketones may cause •high blood sugar level, •high level of ALT—a liver enzyme indicating liver dysfunction, •cause your brups to smell like raspberries.
Bitter orange/synephrine
•Ingredients: synephrine is related to ephedrine which is now banned by FDA because of serious side effects.
•Effectiveness: synephrine has similar mechanisms to ephedrine but is less potent, •reduce appetite, •increase fat burning.
Gastric bypass or other weight loss surgeries collectively known as bariatric surgery—involve making changes to your digestive system to help you lose weight.
•it is done when diet and exercise haven't worked or when you have serious health problems because of your weight.
Best surgery for losing weight.
GASTRIC BYPASS is most effected in losing weight resulted in an average 31% loss of total body weight in first year and 25% after five years.
Safest form of surgery
Vertical sleeve gastrectomy is the most widely used and safest in bariatric surgery
3 Types of weight loss surgery.
•Rouxen-Y gastric bypass
•Adjustable gastric banding
•sleeve gastrectomy
Life Expectancy:
The adjusted median life expectancy in the surgery group was 3.0 years longer than in the control group but 5.5 years shorter than in the general population
•Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty is the newer type of minimally invasive weight loss procedure.
In this procedure a suturing device is inserted into your throat down into your stomach. The endoscopist then places sutures in your stomach to make it smaller.