Spaniards want your doctor to advise them to lose weight with medicinal plants.

One of four Spanish wants to diet.

– A 6 of every 10 people would like that your doctor will advise for plants to lose weight when you need to lose weight

-experts recommend diet, exercise, and medicinal plants of pharmaceutical dispensing

Madrid, April 2010.- one of four age 18 Spanish plans to launch a diet this year and to most of them would like that your doctor recommended medicinal plants to help them achieve this, according to a survey of INFIT (phytotherapy Research Center). This scientific society has published a book on myths related to overweight and medicinal plants are advised where that weight loss programmes to be effective they must combine a healthy diet, exercise physical and preparations exempted medicinal plants in pharmacy.

With the arrival of good weather increases the number of people you want to lose weight and pharmaceutical dispensing medicinal plants can help to achieve gradual and safe way accompanied by diet and exercise ”, says Concha Navarro, Professor of Pharmacology of the University of Granada and President of INFIT. 26% Of the adult population is planning to launch a diet this year, women in greater measure (28.5 per cent) than men, and by population groups include those who are between 50 and 64 years and workers on their own (one out of three). 6 Of every four respondents (59%) would like, in case you want to lose weight, your doctor will advise prepared medicinal plants, such as green tea or Camilina, artichokes or Glucomanano.

Nevertheless recognizes Dr. Alberto Sacristán, specialist in family medicine and a member of INFIT, most doctors do not usually recommend prepared plants because you don’t know, they are not studied in the faculty, and to know how we have to postgraduate courses, which are becoming more common in universities ”. Who were trained in herbal medicine in her career are pharmacists, explains Concha Navarro, by what can advise on what preparation is most appropriate for each person ”.

Different types of plants

In this regard, emphasizes Teresa Ortega, Professor of Pharmacology at the Complutense University and Vice President of INFIT, there are people who need to reduce the appetite for what we have plants as the Garcinia cambogia, which also helps to better fulfil the diet. Other suits them have a sense of satiety, which helps glucomannan and Fucus; There are people who are advised Camilina, for its ability to raise the caloric expenditure through the body temperature and reduce fat intake. There are also plants that collaborate in the intestinal transit, diuresis, and liver cleansing ”, said.

INFIT survey reveals that one of every two consulted (48%) more confidence in the preparations of medicinal plants to be sold in pharmacies and one in three has its confidence in the herbal. In the book myths about medicinal plants and overweight, who has edited this society, one of the false beliefs about medicinal plants to dismantle is that outside the pharmacy plants more natural ” or effective, when it is just on the contrary, as indicated by Concha Navarro: preparations of medicinal plants with registration of medicinal product to be found in the pharmacy are those who just have all the guarantees efficacy and safety ”.

For his part, Professor Jesús Román, President of the Spanish society of nutrition and Food Sciences, who has worked in the book, warns that the overweight and obesity are a major health problem, but it is also the number of people who engage in magical dietsthey ingest products without advice from a health professional or, simply, they stop eating just to look good ”. Therefore, it recommends put in the hands of a health care professional and combine exercise and calorie restriction with the pharmaceutical preparations of medicinal plants.

A previous INFIT survey revealed that one of every ten Spaniards has resorted to herbal medicine for losing weight and that two of every three respondents what worries them most overweight are the consequences for health. Only 7% it cares more aesthetic than health and they are very few (5%) to those not worried either. As age increases awareness about the consequences of overweight on health is greater.