Why Weight

Is it Really Possible to Lose Weight With Diet Patches?

By Rando Meresmaa


The diet patch is another one of those hyped weight loss products. The diet patch supposedly melts fat away from your tummy, arm, or thighs no matter what you eat. But does it really do all of those things. Can the various diet patches actually deliver the ingredients they claim to, and whether those ingredients are effectively delivered through the skin transdermally?

Although there are many different types of patches on the market, most contain a blend of four main ingredients:

Guarana: often standardized for caffeine, a stimulant which has mild fat burning or thermogenic properties. It's also an antioxidant and a diuretic.

Chromium: useful to help regulate insulin function and balance blood sugar levels. In other words, it is useful for the treatment of many of the characteristics of the disorder that is often called "metabolic syndrome."

Garcinia cambogia (standardized for HCA -- hydroxycitric acid): touted to prevent the conversion of carbohydrates into fat by inhibiting the action of the enzyme citrate lyase.
Although there has been some promising results shown with HCA, a study published Journal of the American Medical Association showed that HCA supplementation failed to produce any measurable weight loss. The study focused on 135 overweight individuals for a 3 month period.

Fucus vesiculosus (or bladderwrack or brown seaweed): touted by the diet patch makers to burn fat, bladderwrack contains a high concentration of iodine. Iodine is used by the thyroid gland to make the various thyroid hormones necessary for optimal performance.

Are any of these ingredients scientifically proven to help you lose weight to begin with? Second, does the over-the-counter patch effectively deliver the ingredients through the skin the same as the prescription drug patches? I would say in almost every case the answers are no and no.

Here are some facts about diet patches:

In 1988, The FDA seized a supply of Appetoff patches, which were nothing more than circular band aids that instructed users to place a drop of supposed fat-burning liquid on it. The patches were tested and found to contain no active ingredients.

In March 2004, Peel Away the Pounds settled with the FTC, agreeing to pay back more than one million dollars to ripped off consumers after being charged that they made false and unsubstantiated claims about their weight loss patch, such as three to five pounds per week in weight loss.

In November 2004, Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit against a Nevada corporation, Diet Patch, Inc., for luring consumers to their website with false claims and free trial offers for their diet patch. They were charged with multiple violations of the consumer fraud and deceptive business practices act.

In January 2006, A Michigan man was sentenced to two years in jail after being charged with sending millions of spam email messages to sell phony diet aids including the Avatar diet patch.

The FTC says that diet patches have never been shown to be safe or effective and never received FDA approval. And if you ate right and exercised right, you would not need them even if they did work and you could save your money! Spend it on better food and a gym membership or home gym equipment.

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