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Losing Weight Quickly

Posted on: October 20, 2010 by admin

Crazy Things People Will Try to Start Losing Weight Quickly

It might be the stuff of comedy bits on TV showing what happens to people when they take medicine that was originally intended for their pet; but people can go pretty far out when it comes to what they are willing to do to lose weight. Enter the drug Clenbuterol, a substance used to treat asthma in horses, something you usually find in the veterinarian’s drug cabinet. The reason anyone believes it works is that clenbuterol stimulates the heart to work more quickly. That is something that helps burn more fat. Still, the body grows to be immune to it after a while, and clenbuterol doesn’t stay as effective. The thing is though that the FDA doesn’t believe that this is a drug people should be taking. The only way to get your hands on some of this would be through illegal methods. And of course, getting your heart to race for no particular reason, all in pursuit of losing weight quickly, can easily kill people.
Up next on our list of crazy things people will try to start losing weight quickly is a hormone found in the pee of pregnant women. They distill a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin out of the pee of pregnant women and administer it to people who wish to lose weight through an injection. The hormone is used naturally in the bodies of pregnant women to help them burn fat to release energy for the baby. The hope is that it’ll help burn fat in people who are not pregnant too if they take the hormone in by injection. It’s also a great appetite suppressant. It works of course, but the FDA does not approve of it and it can be unsafe for your general well-being to lose weight as quickly as this hormone makes it possible.
Last up, is another bizarre theory. And it has to do with parasite eggs. This is a technique that was discovered in and is pretty popular in the Far East, in places like Hong Kong. With this method, people keen on losing weight quickly swallow the eggs of Ascaris worms. They do this because Ascaris, or roundworms, in common parlance, establish camp in your intestines and eat up all the food that goes into your tummy. When your body gets less food to use up, it just does what it can and starts to burn up your store of fat. The truth about this crazy method is that roundworms are deadly. They grow to a full foot in length, and can block the digestive passages in the body. If they happen to block your bile ducts, that could get fatal. And worms that can lay hundreds of thousands of eggs, will usually leave behind a legacy in the form of worms for you to deal with. Of course, they can eat their way right through your body too. The things some people will try!