The latest scandal in slimming medication made us all aware of how terribly exposed we are when most vulnerable – desperately wanting to lose weight.

So, what to do?

Here is a quick check list to keep you safe:

1. The ordinary person will not know from the packaging whether the ingredients are safe. Go to your medical doctor or pharmacist and aske them to interpret the ingredients. Easy as that!
2. What to do if the manufacturer does not list all the ingredients? Well then we all have a problem. However, here the same golden rule applies as when you want to invest your hard earned money. If the promise is too good to be true, it is too good to be true! If the advertising is too positive, you need to be very careful. Remember there is no silver bullet that will wisk all your excess weight away in a jiffy. Expert marketers can usually judge by advertising and packaging alone whether a product is sailing too close to the shore.
3. There are basically two ways in which slimming medication works. The low road is by suppressing your appetite and dehydrating you, which addresses symptoms but not the underlying cause of your weight problem. The second way is by addressing your insulin resistance. More and more the medical profession recognises that the role our metabolism plays in our weight problems has to do with insulin. So ask your doctor or pharmacist whether the medication you want to buy is taking the low road or the high road of insulin control?