Attention parents: Never let your teenage daughters take diet pills. Here’s why

If your teenaged daughter is too conscious of her looks and wants to pop pills to shed weight, stop her immediately. She could be at an increased risk of harming hormones, growth as well as mental health, warns a new study.

Attention parents. Is your teenaged daughter popping pills to shed weight? Beware, she may be at an increased risk of harming hormones, growth as well as mental health, researchers warned.

The findings showed that diet pills are unsafe for all ages but especially for teenagers due to the presence of toxic chemicals in the supplements. These pills interfere with the body systems and result in nutritional deficiencies, particularly of iron and calcium, the 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 kilos 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.

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