Best Weight Loss Pills

With so many weight loss pills to chose from and with so much marketing on media one begins to wonder if there are any best weight loss pills? If you are on the heavier side you must have asked yourself this question, and maybe even have fallen prey to a number of scams.

Weight loss pills can be divided into different categories according to the action they perform. Therefore the best weight loss pills for you depends on what drug effect will have most effect on you.

Three major categories for this are- appetite suppressants, fat burners and fat blockers. Although all of the mentioned are very popular, fat blockers are now available more easily and have gained enormous popularity in a short period of time. Xenical in particular has been very popular. Some have even referred this to be among the best weight loss pills ever. Xenical which is the brand name for Orlistat works by blocking a pancreatic enzyme called lipase and subsequently inhibiting fat absorption.

So does Xenical live up to the mark of being considered among the best weight loss pills? Clinical studies have proven that Xenical works on varying degrees on different people, but it does work. The variation is determined by compliance, diet and exercise. In one year clinical trials between 35.5% and 54.8% of the subjects achieved atleast a 5% reduction in body mass. Upto 24.8% actually achieved atleast a 10% reduction in body mass!! The most impressive finding was the reduction of incidence of type II diabetes in almost 37% of the subjects. It was because of these findings that Xenical is considered among the best weight loss pills ever.

A point to remember from the above study is that after the subjects stopped taking Xenical i.e. after one year period a significant number of subjects regained 35% of the lost weight i.e. if someone lost 30 pounds over one year they regained 35% of that. An important thing to remember about Xenical is its mode of action. No doubt that it is among the best weight loss pills, it's mode of action is by binding fat and preventing fat absorption. Now once you stop taking Xenical (and therefore let the fat absorb) and continue with the same old fatty diet then of course the fat which was before not being absorbed by xenical now goes to your system and hence the weight gain. An ideal way to approach this would be to start with Xenical and modify your diet along the way. Although it is among the best weight loss pills out there an effort on ones part is important for long term goals.

Adeel Shaikh is a doctor. To find out more on Xenical, cautions to use when buying Xenical and contraindications then please visit Best Weight Loss Pills