Prescription and Non-Prescription Diet Pills

Diet pills can be split into two distinct groups or categories; prescription diet pills and non prescription. One type is free to buy from health stores, a pharmacy or online via the internet without restriction - the other is administered by a doctor, GP or health care professional no prescription pharmacy.

The first prescription diet pill was introduced in the mid 1960's, these were very much amphetamine based - otherwise known as speed. Amphetamines were usually prescribed to patients who were very overweight if not bordering on obese. Amphetamine was used to control or suppress appetite with the ideology that the less food or fat consumed would eventually shrink the stomach.

The use of amphetamine is nowadays frowned upon due to the addictive qualities and potential side effects.

The diet pill of choice for many doctors in today's society connected with tackling obesity is Xenical (Orlistat). A prescription only diet pill that has all necessary accreditation and produces only the very mildest of side effect. Unfortnately Xenical is not available to everyone or anyone. To qualify, a patient is to be considered dangerously over weight and at risk - only then will a GP prescribe. Xenical is a fat blocker and can stop over a quarter of consumed fat from being absorbed by the body.

Xenical cannot be purchased legally, however the combination of desperate dieters and the black market will always find a way - this is to be avoided, the chances of buying Xenical that is anything but genuine and authentic is slim. Replica or fake prescription diet pills are commonplace.

Phentermine is another prescription only diet pill that shares similarities with Xenical in so much as it only prescribed to the needy and is target for black market. Phentermine is a modern pharmaceutically produced appetite suppressant that is not in the least bit natural and can be prone to the potentially harmful side effect.

Appetite suppressants are still very much a part of the diet industry today. Appetite suppressants are possibly the most effective form of weight control - with the emphasis on curbing appetite and so tackling the problem at source rather than treating the after effects of weight gain.

The over the counter diet pill market has become overcrowded in recent times with herbal based diet products that offer a dieter more than just a weight loss solution. Many diet products offer beautification benefits all neatly packaged as a miracle diet pill.

This type of wonder pill does not enhance the reputation of the diet industry. Often a celebrity will become associated with a diet product in the hope of promoting to the masses.

The diet pill that long exceeds any of the above in terms of history and weight loss success is Hoodia, or Hoodia Gordonii to be precise. A cactus like plant that grows in the unforgiving desert regions of Southern Africa. Those who buy Hoodia diet pills are buying into many centuries of success and research.

For hundreds if not thousands of years the local tribesman have been eating the substance found within the Hoodia Gordonii leaf. This powerful substance is the most potent natural appetite suppressant on earth non prescription pharmacy. Often the tribesman would through necessity last for days without eating.

Hoodia Gordonii has been responsible for countless success stories worldwide and is possibly the best selling and popular over the counter diet pill.

It is rather ironic that the obese western world looks to the hunger stricken regions of Africa for a cure for over indulgence.