African Mango Scam

Every year there is a new "magic" diet pill that comes onto the market.  Two years ago it was Zylene, last year it was Acai Berry , and this year it's the African Mango Scam.  I call it the African Mango scam because the FDA and independent peer reviewed studies never get a chance to test these new pills before the hit the market and are portrayed as a great weight loss supplement.   All of these diet pills have their own studies that "assure us" people will lose weight on these pills, and these biased tests can be misleading.  Most diet pills in general are a scam

People buy them with the hopes all they do is pop the pills and the weight just flies off.  Any diet pill period needs to be consumed with a combination of healthy eating and exercise for maximum results, yet most people don't do this.  See a problem here? 

All it takes is a few doctors/health experts to make a diet pill like this famous.  This year it was Doctor Oz who helped get the African Mango Scam rolling by promoting it on his show and website, however there are a few other "health professionals" who backup his claims, and a number of people do validate some solid weight loss results from this product.

Even if these pills don't actually work, but give someone a mental edge and they try harder to eat healthy and exercise then it may not be such a bad thing.   I'm not saying people shouldn't try diet pills as a supplement to healthy eating and weight loss, I'm saying people should be just a little cautious taking things that aren't independently studied, and need to understand you're not just going to lose 10lbs a week by popping a pill while sitting on a couch eating 5000 calories a day.