What are the risks in taking diet pills?

What are the risks in taking diet pills?

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Over three billion doses of diet pills are taken each year in America. Most of the deaths are cross-related: in other words, they're using other types of substances in conjunction with the diet pills. Most of them are simply placebos. However, there have been over 100 deaths in the last five years from overdoses on different types of ephedrine and other types of chemicals that are used in the diet pills, especially if there's any type of herbal concoction or a diet pill that comes from overseas. So diet pills, dieting, people looking for the fast road to lose some weight, I think might be better on the treadmill than the diet pill.