Lipobind And Proactol Comparison

Celebrity endorsements do not particularly add value to a product nor do they validate credentials.

They do, however, give credibility and create brand awareness.

A vast majority of diet and weight loss products available over the counter have used the celebrity angle in their marketing material to some degree.

Good, bad or indifferent the effect seems to be wearing off as the consumer is becoming wise and the once celebrity endorsement now has changed somewhat into a type of contractually obliged paid to adverse arrangement.

The two ends of the scale are typified by two products with very similar backgrounds, similar ingredients but poles apart in terms of marketing approach.

Lipobind And Proactol

Lipobind and Proactol are both manufactured and distributed within the UK, both are natural binders and both can prevent a portion of fat from food consumed from being digested.

The differences occur when the marketing is brought into the equation.

Lipobind has a large advertising budget and not scared to spend it. The usual tactic is place advertisement strategically in glossy magazine, on billboards and now the first steps into advertising on television.

Lipobind are also not shy when it comes to the celebrity endorsement. To date – Katy Hill, Lucy Benjamin ad Melinda Messenger have revealed their Lipobind success story.

Lipobid is available to buy in store at several well known outlets including Superdrug, Holland and Barret many leading supermarkets. It is also available to purchase online from several registered pharmacies.

Proactol on other hand have never really courted the media and rely on the real life testimonial and medical endorsement.

Proactol is not quite so widely available – purchases can only be made from the official Website.

How Does Proactol Compare To Lipobind

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Alli Orlistat Could Face Ban

Alli Orlistat, the once miracle but now rather controversial diet pill could become the banned diet pill if health regulatory watchdogs get their way.

Alli became the first pharmaceutically produced diet pill that could be purchased over the counter in the UK back in April 2009.

Six months on and GlaxoSmithKline’s wonder weight loss product could become one of its most embarrassing.

It seems not a week passes without the media picking up on some kind of controversy surrounding Alli. The most recent was a BBC news article featuring the lengths that buyers will go to purchase.

The initial regulations set in place for anyone wanting to buy Alli were not entirley straight forward.

How to Buy Alli In Store Or Online

To qualify to purchase in store at the likes of Boots, Superdrug and other high street chemists, potential buyers were asked to first consult with the pharmacist were he or she would calculate a BMI (Body Mass Index) and then the pharmacist would decide whether or not to allow a purchase.

A BMI score of 28 or above would qualify a purchase.

Although Alli is technically free to buy without prescription it is still classified as a diet drug and so some kind of regulation had to put in place, no matter how loose.

Now its seems buyers have taken to buying Alli online and skirting around these rather loose and ambigious regulations by completing the required online form using false and inacurate details.

Anorexia And Bulimia Suffers Buying Ali Online

The Royal College of GPs says it’s a serious concern and BEAT, the UK’s leading eating disorder charity, says it is aware of  customers with anorexia and bulimia are getting hold of Alli.

They’re avoiding face-to-face contact with a pharmacist by buying from authorised chemists online and getting the pills delivered by royal mail.

GlaxoSmithKlines rebuttal appears to be understated and rather calm.

A spokesman for Glaxo says “more than one hundred clinical trials on thirty thousand people across the globe have proved Alli is safe.” Although this doesn’t really address the problem as to why a weight loss product is being sold to people with eating disorders!

Glaxosmithkline say it simply won’t have much effect on someone with an eating disorder such as bulimia and anorexia because there is so little fat in their diet.

For information as to how Alli works – Read the Alli Review

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Can Alli Cause Liver Damage

In April of this year (2009) Alli, the  pharmaceutically produced diet pill was introduced to the UK.

On the day of release an estimated £1m worth of stock was sold with high street stockists such as Boots, Superdrug and many online dispensaries selling out within a few days.

Alli was released a year earlier in the United States and even though 12 months of Alli usage by US consumers revealed an embarrassing but mostly incovenient side effect nothing of serious nature was documented.

Read More About Alli

Now its seems a far more sinister side effect has been  reported with both the FDA (US) and MHRA (UK) governmental bodies revealing that Alli could be linked to some serious health issues including liver damage.

FDA And MHRA Warn Over Potential Serious Side Effects

The main ingredient in Alli is Orlistat – the chemical compound that is also present in the prescription only Xenical.

Xenical has been available since the turn of the century and although reports of serious side effects have been few and far between – one is possibly one too many.

GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical giant who manufactures Alli released a statement saying “the safety of consumers was of ‘utmost importance’ to the company and that it supplied all information about adverse effects to Government drugs bodies.” – meaning the FDA and the MHRA.

A spokesman for the FDA said: ‘We have received rare reports of hepatitis and other liver-related laboratory abnormalities in people taking orlistat. The FDA is closely monitoring this issue to determine the need for any regulatory action”

What Now For Alli

Could it be that Alli is the lastest pharmaceutical slimming drug to be removed from public consumption – earlier this year saw a prescription appetite suppressant Acomplia Rimonbant withdrawn amid similar safety concerns.

If Alli is withdrawn from the market it will leave the major pharmaceutical companies in a very precarious position.

The diet pill and slimming tablet industry is worth billions in many parts of the world – public confidence will be completely destroyed.

The natural world competes with the pharmaceutical world and any move by either the FDA or the MHRA will shift the power back to more naturally produced products.

Alli Alternatives

Whichever side of the fence you sit on you have to give credit to mother nature – whilst chemists and science are busy forumlating the latest and greatest slimming products, natural substances such as Hoodia Gordonii have been available for millenniums.

Man has yet to formulate a product that can suppress appetite as effectively and without causing health issues as Raw Hoodia Powder.

More about Hoodia Gordonii

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