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Weight loss pills suspected to contain rat poison

The Health Department of Hong Kong has issued a warning regarding a diet product called Healthily Slim which, like  hundreds of others, contains the weight loss medication Reductil.

Reductil is the world’s best selling prescription appetite suppressant and has been used by millions of men and women.

Healthily Slim is one of the growing number of drugs which criminals manufacture in dangerous factories and use to concoct legal weight loss products.

These illegal weight loss drugs make no mention of their ingredients or side effects, and have been found to be cut with dangerous substances like rat poison and brick dust.

Because of the huge proliferation of these suspect weight loss medications, we recommend that you should never use any slimming product no matter how harmless it looks or sounds unless you have first checked it out with a doctor.

Healthily Slim which was being sold in health shops all over Hong Kong has been removed from the shelves following a number of Health Department raids. In all they seized over 1,000 bottles of the Healthily Slim product but there are likely to be far more out there and it is also probable that the product is being sold on the internet.

If you want to lose weight, do so in a safe and reliable way by getting objective information and following a sensible eating and exercise plan. Find out more by browsing these pages or visiting www.eatingwellonline.co.uk.