Weight loss industry is growing at brisk pace to keep a match with the alarming growth of obesity. Everyday you can find a new product to cut down your extra kilos. According to an estimate 8 million Americans go on dieting every year and only 5% of them reach the goal of losing weight. If you survey market for weight loss products you will find that mostly it is filled with the weight loss diets and weight loss pills. Fat blockers are a one of type of weight loss pills. They are marketed as the dietary fat blocking agents.

What are fat blockers?

You will come across many times in 24 hours with things like these “eat freely don’t worry about fat” “fat is no more a problem” and if you probe for a while you will find that it is a ad of fat blocking agent. What a fat blocking agent or a fat blocker is ? This question will pop up in your mind. A fat blocker is a agent which is capable of blocking dietary fat from absorption into the blood as indicated by the name” fat blocker”. Their fat blocking action is claimed to be responsible for weight loss.

How fat blockers work in the body?

Fat blockers are thought to render their fat blocking effect by following two ways; Some agents block fat by making a combination with the fat in the food. In this way the fat in the food becomes unable to pass through the bowl layers into the blood and is passed directly into the feaces. So unabsorption of dietary fat causes weight reduction. While some other type of fat blockers have a specific type of chemical agent which can inhibit a fat digesting enzyme ‘lipase’. Inactivation of lipase renders the fat unabsorbed. Then rest of mechanism is same low fat in the blood causes less deposition of body fat and results in weight loss.

Effectivity of fat blockers

Effectivity of fat blockers is under hammer most of the time if you go for search for such agents. Most unbiased sources do not recommend their use for treatment of obesity. Even some studies indicate that they do not show miracle results which they do claim in ads. Even some studies reveal that regular exercise helps more efficiently towards weight control compared to weight loss drugs and pills. So if you talk about fat blockers especially their success percentage is not more than 30% in maximum.