Market is litered with many over-the-counter and prescription weight loss medications including diet pills, food suplements and various herbal weight loss products. Some are "natural" herbal or vitamin & mineral based products, others are complex pharmaceutical chemicals.

My personnel opinion is that all these medications should be avoided at as far as possible, and should be used as second option choices. Some people may sat that if an option is available why not avail it. These effects of any weight loss medication is usually assessed on two grounds safety and effectiveness. There isn't a single weight loss product that meets the standards of both safety and effitivness. Apart from the over the counter drugs the prescription weight loss drugs are also very tricky to handle and should only used under the guidence of your physician when other weight loss methods are not effective.