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Top 10 Ways to Spot a Fad Diet
A weight-loss plan is probably a fad diet if:
1. The menu features extremely limited food choices, such as only grapefruits and melon for fruits, or rice and pasta for starches.
2. You must cut out an entire food group, like carbohydrates.
3. You choose your meals from only one food group, maybe all protein or all carbohydrates.
4. The diet eliminates all fats.
5. It promises ultra-fast weight loss, a pound per day or more.
6. The diet is used to sell a product, such as herbal weight-loss pills or a specific food.
7. The weight-loss claims are based on unproven science, such as the idea that combining certain foods can cause you to gain or lose weight.
8. The diet's promoters put down traditional medical experts by saying that doctors don't understand the way the program works.
9.The promoters make claims that sound too good to be true --you can lose weight while you sleep or eat lots of fattening foods and still lose weight.
10. The explanation of how the diet works is simplistic, and promoters say that the true explanation is too complex for most people to understand.
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Important Safety Information
- KAPIDEX may not be right for everyone. You should not take KAPIDEX if you are allergic to KAPIDEX or any of its ingredients. Severe allergic reactions have been reported.
- Symptom relief does not rule out other serious stomach conditions.
- The most common side effects of KAPIDEX were diarrhea (4.8%), stomach pain (4.0%), nausea (2.9%), common cold (1.9%), vomiting (1.6%), and gas (1.6%). KAPIDEX and certain other medicines can affect each other. Before taking KAPIDEX, tell your doctor if you are taking ampicillin, atazanavir, digoxin, iron, ketoconazole, or tacrolimus. If you are taking KAPIDEX with warfarin, you may need to be monitored because serious risks could occur.
Uses of KAPIDEX
- Persistent heartburn two or more days a week, despite treatment and diet changes, could be acid reflux disease (ARD). Prescription KAPIDEX capsules are used in adults to treat heartburn related to ARD, to heal acid-related damage to the lining of the esophagus (called erosive esophagitis or EE), and to stop EE from coming back. Individual results may vary. Most damage (erosions) heals in 4–8 weeks.
Talk to your doctor or healthcare professional. Please see full Prescribing Information for KAPIDEX.
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