Laxatives and loosing weight

[muchlovex]

how do laxatives help you to lose weight?
i only ask as i say an article in the paper at the weekend about Natalie Cassady who took laxatives to help her to lose weight.

[muchlovex]

SORRY i mean't to post this in Body and Soul.

[kira000]

They make the food pass through your system too quickly for your body to be able to absorb the fat/calories etc.

But you also dont absorb any nutrients/vitamins etc, and so it makes you ill in the long term.

[sun5hinez]

I can't believe a celebrity said that laxatives made her lose weight!!!! Are you sure this was said, not just something made up by the media? Laxatives are not for losing weight. They will make you very, very, ill. They should only be used for short term use and for the reason of constipation!!!! There have been many young girls out there who have completely messed up their bodies by abusing laxatives. Girls who have abused them in their late teens and early twenties only to end up with having bowel operations, unable to control going to the toilet, and having the bowel capacity of a person in their 70's. This is for sure. The ONLY way to lose weight is through eating less fat and sugar and excercise. Everything else is ridiculous. Huge corporations reap the awards through dieting fads, whereas people once they stop this fad they only put the weight back on, if not more. Same with laxatives, they will make your body believe it is unwell, your body will then want to hold onto the fat when it eventually has it, as it believes it has been through a famine. Please, don't go down the route of laxatives to lose weight, it is very dangerous and addictive. Believe in yourself, have confidence and will power, if it is you that wishes to lose weight. But laxatives DO not make anyone lose weight. XXX