The increasing need of losing weight is being cashed by the ever expanding “Weight loss industry”. The weight loss industry has reached 100 billion $ only in USA. The weight loss products are being poured at rapid rate into the ever growing weight loss market. The range of weight loss products has diversified a lot form its beginning. Now you can find a lot of stuff around you in the markets ranging from diet pills to phony devices and electrical stimulators. A lot can be talked about the affectivity of each of the weight loss products , but it would be worth mentioning to name some of the most common in demand. Here I am not talking about the their market names I will mention them by their types.

Diets

• Low calorie diets
• Fad diets

Pills and capsules

• Fat blockers
• Fat burners
• Starch blockers
• Diet pills
• Herbal pills

Devices

• Electrical stimulators
• Satiety eyeglasses
• Acupuncture earrings

These weight loss products are in abundance in the market with a variety of brand names. The volume of money in this business has also mushroomed the growth of weight loss clinics or slimming centers. These clinics and slimming centers are also selling these products in one or other way. The price structure for weight loss products is also very high and the marketers just don’t mention their associated hazards. The manufacturer of weight loss products has very less to do with their side effects.

The hazards of each type of these products require separate discussion, but overall in the medical community these are under rated products. There is no such research material available which advocates their efficacy. Even the medical science has not yet been able to come up the exact cause of weight gain so rendering unable to suggest any kind of drug or therapy.

The choice of weight loss products by a customer is mainly based on the advertisement of the product. This is a totally wrong trend and should be discouraged. The eye catching ad campaign is the basis of this approach. Infect the right path to problem is suggestion of your physician and dietitian. They can help you out of this dilemma in better manner. An other problem with patient is his hasty approach to the results in weight loss therapy even in such cases also the patient is unwilling to yield his unhealthy approach to the problem. This attitude of patient makes him receptive to tempting advertisement and sped on these weight loss products.

So, keeping in mind these problems, we have tried to list the major products being sold commercially for losing weight and provide basic information about these products so, that people can make informed decisions about these products and are not fooled by the eye catching advertisements and false testimonials in favour of these products.