Slimming capsule ingredients vary so much you really need to read labels. For example there are benign formulas made from lemon and cayenne (as a substitute for doing the real lemonade diet or Master Cleanse with fresh lemons, cayenne peeper, maple syrup and lots of water). Such slimming capsules won’t do much good to detoxifying the body, but they’re harmless enough.
Other capsules claim to contain powerful fat burning foods like pure cayenne, perhaps a marketing exaggeration, but no harm done. Cayenne is healthy and almost anyone can benefit by taking it. Garlic and ginger (two other supposed fat burning foods) found in slimming capsules, and green tea pills, may also be benign, albeit on their own won’t miraculously burn body fat, but are rather harmless. However, not all slimming capsule formulas and fat burning foods are harmless or benign.
Amongst the ones that should be considered carefully, are the popular hoodia cactus slimming pills. They’re made from a specific South African cactus not because it’s considered to be one of the best fat burning foods, but because the cactus has long been used to suppress the need for food and water when traveling through deserts and where eating or drinking isn’t possible. Although pure hoodia slimming capsules do not contain dangerous stimulants and don’t have awful side effects, there’s something about hoodia that makes it dangerous. It’s not just an effective appetite suppressant with a fat blocking bonus, but it also makes a person not want to drink.
Since people who want to lose weight in a wholesome manner by taking a “natural” plant derivative probably understand the importance of hydration and detoxification, they must be very careful to force themselves to drink sufficient water. If hoodia slimming capsule formulas are taken for a prolonged period of time, dehydration can happen while a dieter is unaware and feeling no thirst. People should therefore be very careful and understand that the affects of dehydration and far more serious than those of temporary starvation.