Opuntia Ficus-Indica – The Prickly Pear
Most pharmaceutical grade medication, drugs and supplements started life as one or more natural substances – nature is science’s supermarket.
Occasionally natural substances are discovered that are in absolutely no need for any kind of natural or scientific alteration. The Prickly Pear is one such substance.
The Prickly Pear (Latin name Opuntia Ficus-Indica) is a type of cactus. Its exact origins are unknown but it is traditionally grown in Mexico, the ancient Aztec civilization would use the prickly pear for all kinds of natural medicinal benefits.
Today, the Prickly Pear’s two main health benefits are used to treat obesity and to also treat the after effects of excess alcohol – hangovers.
“Preventing fat from being absorbed by the stomach is the most effective technology that can be utilised within a formula of a diet pill”
Prickly Pear, Weight Loss And Diet Pills
Of its two main benefits, weight loss is by the greater and most widely used – there have been several scientific studies on the cactus in recent times that underlines that the Prickly Pear can not only bind dietary fat but create a mild appetite suppressing effect. Preventing fat from being absorbed by the stomach is the most effective technology that can be utilised within a formula of a diet pill – appetite suppression is a close second.
How Does The Prickly Pear Aid Weight Loss
The commercial weight loss, diet and slimming industry is fully stocked with products that claim to be natural but in essence the fact is that a large majority of ingredients have been synthetically engineered.
Proactol uses extracts from the Opuntia Ficus-Indica cactus and little else – no artificial enhancement, preservative or chemical based compounds.
Recently the Daily Express newspaper featured an article on this strange looking plant and its effects – highlighting its role it is playing in the current obesity crisis that appears to gathering momentum.
Daily Express columnist Jo Wiley penned an article entitled “Prickly Pear In The Battle Against Obesity.” It explained how a commercial diet product (Proactol) had positioned itself in the marketplace.
Proactol has compelling clinical evidence based on several independent double blind placebo trials – and yet their marketing message appeared rather muted.
This highlights the difference between the UK diet pill industry and their American counterparts. The word Miracle and phrase Miracle Diet Pill is banded about all too frequently in the United States often with little or no substantiation. The UK as with most things tends to keep its powder dry.
Proactol product manager Katie Downing-Howitt said: “We aren’t suggesting that Proactol is a miracle treatment for obesity but it is clinically proven to bind with fat and, as part of a balanced healthy lifestyle, does assist weight loss.”
“Or put another way only 75% of the potential calories taken on will appear in the places you don’t want them to.”
Proactol is a UK produced natural diet pill available without prescription.
Proactol is a natural fat binder it can stop the absorption of approximately a quarter of dietary fat from being digested from food consumed. Or put another way only 75% of the potential calories taken on will appear in the places you don’t want them to.
Proactol has been responsible for numerous diet and weight loss success stories since its introduction to the free market in 2005. In 2008 and 2009 Proactol was voted “Best Diet Pill” by an independently run poll participated in by thousands of people who had successfully lost weight.
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