Diet Patches Review

As an alternative to diet pills or powders, diet patches are supposedly an easier and more convenient way to take a diet supplement. Typically a once-a-day application is all that is needed. No keeping track of morning, noon and evening pills, or having difficulty swallowing pills that are too large, or having to find a blender to make a powder-based shake.

The theory behind the use of patches is that substances can be absorbed right through the skin and into the bloodstream, bypassing the digestive system. Unfortunately, absorbing substances through the skin may or may not be the very best way to get the most out of certain supplements. Science has yet to devise a truly effective diet patch, but the field is still young. Perhaps in the future the technology will become more advanced.

Plus, it’s hard to know if the amount of substance advertised is actually within the patch, since you can’t actually see anything, like you can with most diet pills. Often diet patches claim to have hoodia, guarana, garcinia cambogia, bladderwrack (a seaweed), chromium or citrus aurantium in them. Whatever is actually in the patch must be a miniscule amount, as the patches are typically nothing but a sticky squareof latex.

If you think diet patches are too good to be true, you aren’t alone. The FTC has recently fined one maker of diet patches, "Peel Away the Pounds," for making unsubstantiated claims of fast weight loss, due to the lack of scientific evidence of their effectiveness as part of a weight loss diet.

Conclusion: Because the diet patch method of diet supplement delivery has yet to be truly proven effective, Weight Loss Guide.com does not recommend the purchase of the Diet Patches.