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Is it a fad or fantastic? For the first time, a non-prescription diet pill is approved by the Food and Drug Administration and it promises to help you lose 50% more weight than dieting alone. But there are some potentially embarrassing side effects.

If you’re fighting weight gain Alli could be your answer. The first non prescription FDA approved diet pill, on shelves now.

Pharmacist Tom Nelson said, “A lot of people just need some help to get them over the hump and this product may very well fill that need.”

You take the pill before a meal. It then blocks up to 25-percent the fat from getting into your body, preventing weight gain.

Nelson said, “Its a safe drug, but its like anything else, you can’t just take the pill and go on your merry way, without changing some lifestyle habits too you have to follow their guidelines, their recommendations, their diet for it to be effective at all.”

Something else to consider are the potential side effects. Treatment effects may include loose stools, more frequent stools that may be hard to control, gas with oily spotting.

The pill’s website recommends wearing dark pants and taking a change of clothes with you to work.”

Nutrition Counselor Sue Hazeghazam said “It’s not very pleasant I don’t think.”

The more fat you eat, the worse the side effects are. Hazeghazam said, “So when they take this pill they have to excrete all the fat they’ve taken in, so its a learning process to learn where fat is coming from, looking at labels, avoiding high fat meals because there will be accident prone with high fat meals.”

The site also suggests starting on a weekend so you can be close to a bathroom and to hide your gas. Symptoms like that make you think Alli is just a fad.

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