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Are you always thinking to yourself how you need to lose weight? Did healthy eating and exercise come to your mind, or was trying a diet pill what you thought about? Everyone wants to lose weight, but no one ever wants to lose weight the healthy way. People just want to find a quick and easy way to lose weight fast. Regardless of any harmful side effects that can result later down the road to their body. Metabolism disruption, dehydration, and addiction are just a few of some of the serious health problems that can occur besides death. If you are or have taken diet pills, and you are showing the symptoms of any of these health issues, then I strongly suggest you go to see a doctor immediately before things get any worse. When people choose diet pills over healthy eating, they never consider these harmful effects on their body that can result from their quick fix.

One harmful effect is Metabolism Disruption. Metabolism disruption is one of the possible dangers of taking weight-loss pills. Your metabolism is the body's process of converting food and water to energy. Diet pills are made to suppress a person’s appetite, meaning you will not want to eat a lot. In doing that you will be limiting your calorie intake; as an end result, slowing your metabolism down. With fewer calories consumed, your metabolism slows down and becomes sluggish. This causes you to lose lesser and lesser weight over a period of time. It can also cause your body to go into starvation mode. When your body is in starvation mode, meaning you do not consume enough food to provide your body with the essential nutrients it needs daily, your body will slow your metabolism down to conserve energy. Slower metabolisms need less fuel, so you are constantly downsizing on what you eat just to try to lose weight. With less carbohydrates and calories being eaten, your body would first turn to the fat for energy, it would then move on to the protein that is stored in your muscles. With your body not getting...