Medicines and supplements to reduce an abnormal appetite can be a help during a slimming process. On the market of today you can find both appetite suppressors related to the substance amphetamine and appetite reducers of herbal origin. Appetite suppressors are generally recommended to use together with a diet program and exercise, and only for a limited time period. They are never recommended to use as the only means of achieving a reduced weight.

Substances to reduce appetite have been used since the First World War. Soldiers used the stimulating substance amphetamine both to stimulate their fighting capacity and to reduce hunger. The same was done in the Second World War. After the last war, the civil market began to use amphetamine and related substances to help reduce the intake of food during weight loss efforts.

Amphetamine and related substances stimulate the alertness of the central nervous system and the impulse to external action. When zones of the brain dealing with external action are in high activity, signals are sent to zones controlling appetite, digestion and connected functions to reduce their activity. Thus central stimulating substances also reduce appetite. Since these drugs increase the bodily activity, they also help to reduce weight by inducing a higher rate of fat burning.

Some drugs of this group are also used as antidepressant, for example fluoxetine hudrochloride (Prozac).

Being central stimulants all these appetite suppressors also bear a certain risk of developing addiction, and of side effects like insomnia, agitation, manic reactions, hypertension, stroke, heart valve damage and heart rhythm disturbances.

Because of such dangerous effects, many of these substances have been banned from most markets as appetite suppressants, for example amphetamine itself, aminorex, fenfluramine, phenylpropanolamine and ephedrine. However, many of these substances are still used for other purposes, for example to stimulate heart activity and to regulate up a too low blood pressure.

Substances of this group available on the market today as appetite suppresants are: Phentermine, diethylpropion, phenidmetrazine, benzphetamine, sibutramine, rimonabant, oxyntomodulin and fluoxetine hydrochloride (Prozac).

Exercise on a moderate intensity and duration level can reduce the appetite. If you have not engaged in exercise before, beginning a program of regular exercise therefor can help you gain control of an excessive appetite. Harder or longer lasting exercise may increase the appetite. However, exercise will make you burn more fat and suger, and therefore exercise on any lavel that is good for you physically will help reduce weight. It is recommanded to do some exercise every second day.

C. Leptine

To get a normal night's sleep will help you to get slim, because of three effects:

When you do not sleep at night, you tend to eat during night. The metabolism is allways reduced during sleep, so that the food you take in during night will more easily deposit as fat.

When you do not sleep enough at night, your appetite will generally increase also during day.

Lack of sleep during night also decreases the burning or fat even more than the natural decrease that allways occurs during night.

These effects are due to the dynamics of the hormone leptine. Leptine decreases appetite and increases fat burning.

At night the hormone melatonine allways effects a normal decrease in the  level of leptine, thus elevating the appetite and decreasing the metabolism or fat and sugar burning. Meals during night therefore allways tend to deposit as fat.

Lack of sleep decreases even more the leptine level during both day and night, thus the general appetite increases and the general  fat burning decreases.

By knut Holt