Diet plan warnings

The obsession with dieting can lead to all sorts of misuse of chemicals and additives unless strictly controlled by medical professionals. Typically the diet promotors will come up with a combination of products that, whilst medically proven to have an effect on weight, actually have little or no effect in the combination that is being promoted. This is true of products such as in the sensa scam where products of known medical value were prescribed in a way that would be inneffective for fighting weight gain.
My position is that if you must take medication to lose weight, get advice from your doctor, and before you start filling yourself full of pills, or depriving yourself of vital nutrients...try a little exercise...you never know, you might enjoy it.