Diet Pills
By: Tommy • Essay • 900 Words • May 9, 2010 • 1,014 Views
Diet Pills
What's Happening Around You Today?? In today's materialistic driven society, people are judged in every possible aspect. From their appearance, background, social status, way or thinking to their friends, families. The need to be accepted and admired by others captivates the minds of many men and women of today. This conquest for social acceptance becomes so real that the idea then becomes an obsession. The way we look plays a big role in our lives. It determines the way others see us and from that, it will then determine how we feel about ourselves. One major proponent of appearance is our weight. Do you ever notice that the most admired and said to be most popular girls in school are the sexiest, slimmest and most flaunting girls? They are the ones that upon passing by make the guys stop and take a second look. Not only that but this applies to men as well. The most heart-throbbed, crushed on guys are those with firm-cut bods, most of the time carrying footballs or basketballs. From these observations, it becomes a known fact, not only for the young generation, that men and women are obsessed with their weights. And why not?? Whenever you turn on the television or open a magazine all you see are beautiful people flaunting their beautiful bodies. This constant images of seeing sexy idealistic people implants a message in our minds that this is the way all men/women should look in order to be beautiful. And because of this, we subject ourselves to abusing our health and bodies just so we can be like those perfect images. As early as I can recall, there have been ways and tactics created by man to loose weight as fast as they can. The faster and easier, the better. In the past three years, there has been an abundant intrusion of diet pills that has hit the Philippines. The first one that hit was an appetite suppressant drug called Ionamin. It apparently stimulates the brain's appetite-control center into thinking that your stomach is always full. It is an effective weight loss drug that enables one to lose the weight desired in a short amount of time. Consequently, the drug was found to have unpleasant adverse side effects. These are: mood changes, blurred vision, unpleasant taste or dry mouth, constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, urinary urgency, false sense of well-being. It was a non-prescription drug easily that could easily be bought by anyone until studies showed much side effects very harmful to one's health. Next and still quite popular with the public are Bankok pills. These pills are so in demand in the Philippines that people are willing to pay thousands of pesos for just a 2week supply of those pills and further, they are bought through connections because they are not just sold anywhere in any drugstore. This drug taken morning and night somehow also works as a appetite suppressant but the way it gets rid of your unwanted excess weight is by taking it out through your bodily fluids. In other words, when inducing the drug you are subjected to constant urination. It takes out so much that it also takes