Ephedra Alternatives and Herbal Dietary Substitutes
Alternatives to Ephedra include guarana, bitter orange and green tea
extract herbal aliases comparable to caffeine-containing supplements.
Bitter orange contains synephrine, a stimulant chemically similar to ephedra.
Ephedra alternatives:
- Green
tea extract - Green tea typically contains less caffeine per cup
than coffee or lattes, plus many antioxidant vitamins.
- Caffeine itself can be a mild appetite suppressant, and proponents
say there may be other substances in green tea that could slightly speed
calorie burning. There's no evidence yet that green tea causes weight
loss but it does not seem to be too harmful.
- Guarana
- used in a popular Brazilian soft drinks, contains two to three times
as much caffeine as coffee or lattes. Kola and mate are other caffeine-containing
supplements.
- Garcinia - or known as hydroxycitric acid. Although, the Journal of
the American Medical Association research review found no relative evidence
of weight loss.
- Starch-blocking
pills - promise to help starchy foods pass through the body with
less calorie absorption. Most are made with kidney-bean extracts not
thought to be harmful. Supplement giant Metabolife International cites
a small study that found users dropped slightly more weight than regular
dieters, but the research has not been published.
- Fiber
- works on the same principle and can fill people up so they eat less
but it's impossible to get as much fiber in a pill as from a glass of
Metamucil,
made with the soluble fiber psyllium. Fiber is noted to help fight digestive
system diseases and problems.
- Bladderwrack
- a herb that contains a lot of iodine, which could cause or worsen
thyroid disease, notes a recent supplement review by University of Montana
pharmacists. Germany, which strictly regulates herbal medicines, lists
bladderwrack as unapproved, citing the health risk and lack of evidence
that it decreases weight in those tested
Diet Pills that do not contain Ephedra
- Trimspa
- Xenadrine-EFX
- Metabolife,
the forerunner of all ephedra products now epredra free.
- Trim Life
- Nutrisystem, weight
loss program, revs up your metabolism by using real foods that are high
in protein and lower carbs. You eat 5 times a day to increase your metabolism.
There are no diet enhancing drugs or additives in nutrisystem foods.
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