Here's why girls should never take diet pills

London, May 22: Can your teenage daughter pills lose weight? Beware, she may have a risk of hormones, growth as well as mental health risk, the researchers have warned. They found that foodstuffs are not safe for all ages, especially for young people due to the presence of toxic chemicals in the *****. These pills are in the body systems and in particular iron and calcium, interference as a result of nutritional disorders, researchers said.

"In growing children and teenagers, even a marginal reduction in energy intake can be associated with growth deceleration," dailymail.co.uk quoted the Canadian Pediatric Society researchers as saying. Weight loss pills are advertised as the quick solution to shedding pounds and obtaining the perfect figure, but they come with potentially dangerous side effects, including increased heart rate, fainting, unusual bleeding and heart attacks.

Diet pills can also cause and, in extreme cases they can rip apart the stomach lining and even lead to death, the study showed. Further, researchers from the University of Minnesota said a startling 63 per cent of teenage girls use "unhealthy weight control behaviours" to maintain a slim shape. 22% of young people use "very unhealthy weight control behaviors". The use of dietary tablets in teens girls has a significant increase over five years, rising from 7.5 per cent in 2006 to 14.2 per cent. Researchers say that meditation and weight loss are other healthy ways, instead of changing diet pills, exercises, eating habits, and drinking more water.