Will diet pills or supplements help me lose weight?

Unfortunately there are no tricks.

There are some medications that attempt to increase your metabolism (stimulants) or change your aborption of calories -- typically blocking fat absorption.

While the mechanics of these make sense many times they are not associated with long term significant fat loss.

The best way to handle it is increasing your activity and decreasing your caloric intake.

I hope this helps.

Research data shows that the average American gains 8 pounds during the holidays. The latest scientific data shows that in cardiovascular medicine, it is not necessarily body weight that is important to health but your cardiovascular fitness. That is to say, you will probably live longer if you target your HDL to be 100 or 80 or 70 as opposed to 40 or less.

So, weight is important to your look but not so important for your longevity. It has been shown that morbid obesity surgery reduces the risk of death from obesity with body mass index being an important stratificator of mortality, but try to lose weight with your focus being:

• Improving your HDL
• Lowering your LDL
• Lowering your total cholesterol
• Lowering your triglycerides
• Normalizing your glucose level and HbA1c if you are a diabetic
• Increasing your exercise capacity, etc.