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Transdermal Patches for Weight Loss: Safe or Sorry?

Any product that promises to help you lose unwanted pounds while also dropping your blood pressure, clearing your skin, stabilizing your blood sugar, and elevating your mood sounds like a great thing. Companies marketing weight-loss patches have their own test results supporting these claims, as well as loads of personal testimonies that cite the major health benefits to patch use.

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 I Tried It: Aromatherapy Patches for Appetite Control

IWouldn't it be nice if you could find a way to manage your cravings for pizza, chocolate, burgers, cake--you name it? When I heard about these little patches you wear to lose weight naturally, I had to try them. Here's what I discovered... Here's the thing: They didn't.

 Weight loss patches, another scam-sham

Folks, wake-up and smell the rip-off along with your coffee. Over-the-counter weight loss products that make get-thin-quick promises do not work. The greedy diet industry generates more than $40 billion a year. If any fad diet worked the entire world would know it. Include weight loss patches in the list of snake oils. I shout, “phony baloney.” Weight loss patches are considered dietary supplements and do not undergo testing by the Food and Drug Administration.

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Do Claims About Diet Patches Stick?

If every "miracle" weight-loss product really did the job, people everywhere would be cinching in their belts, gyms would become eerily quiet and TV stations would soon run out of B-roll footage of big bellies at the mall. Clearly, some weight-loss products fall short of their claims.

Do Patches Help Weight Loss?

Like the nicotine patch, but for dieters, slimming patches stick on the skin like a Band-Aid. Marketers say the patches reduce cravings and speed metabolism, helping you to lose weight. Some doctors say there's no proof the patches work, and in recent years the Federal Trade Commission has charged certain companies with false advertising.

Everything You Need to Know About Weight Loss Patches

The bottom line is that the claims associated with weight loss patches should be treated with skepticism. Because transdermal patches themselves are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there hasn’t been much research into their effectiveness in delivering weight loss supplements.

The Reason Why Weight Loss Patches Offer Empty Promises

Ultimately, there’s no evidence that using a weight loss patch will give you the immediate results you’re looking for.

There is no evidence to prove the effectiveness of weight loss patches (Transdermal) in burning fat or controlling diabetes

To sum up, there is no evidence to prove the effectiveness of weight loss patches (Transdermal) in burning fat.

Weight Loss What Are Weight Loss Patches, and Do They Work? Doctors Weigh In

These patches are considered supplements and therefore aren’t tightly regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As a result, it’s hard to know for sure what is in these patches, points out Jessica Cording, R.D., author of The Little Book of Game Changers.