Fact: using weight-loss supplements can do more than just harm your body; in some tragic cases, the results can be fatal.
“Burn fat fast!” and “Double weight-loss results” were the kind of deadly promises that killed 21-year-old British University student Eloise Parry in 2015, when she took diet pills containing DNP (dinitrophenol, commonly used in pesticides, and was banned from human consumption in 1938). By the time she’d driven herself to the emergency room, doctors knew she had no hope of surviving. Eloise had a history of bulimia and she’d bought the pills online, swayed by the promises of a 50 per cent increase in metabolic rate. Closer to home, Free Malaysia Today reported that a 19-year-old girl passed away during Ramadan, 2016. Her dark secret? She had been consuming a range of beauty and slimming pills. Here, CLEO looks into the truths surrounding diet pills and why no weight-loss myths are worth your life.
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This story is from the November 2017 edition of CLEO Malaysia.
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