Posted by admin | Posted in Weight Loss | Posted on 13-01-2010
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Warning! Weight loss supplements should be part of a complete weight loss program; including a healthy diet and exercise.
Fact: The vast majority of weight loss supplements are FAR safer than weight loss drugs that doctors prescribe!
Learn the difference between effective ingredients, their effective doses and trendy “window dressing” ingredients. There are 2 main categories of weight loss supplements; fat burners/metabolism boosters and carbohydrate controllers/fat blockers. Fat Burners/Metabolism Boosters: These supplements increase the amount of fuel that your body burns. Some of these supplements can tend to “rev you up” and others tend to suppress your appetite, making you less full between meals and more satisfied after a meal. Some may even help you to selectively burn stored fat and preserve lean muscle.
Examples of these types of supplements are green tea extract, ephedrine, pyruvate, coleus forskohlii, citrus aurantium, conjugated linoleic acid, and hydroxycitric acid. Many times these supplements will be paired with caffeine, aspirin, or L-carnitine to increase their effectiveness. Carbohydrate Controllers/Fat Blockers: These supplements don’t boost your metabolism. Instead they blunt your body’s ability to store carbohydrates and fats in your body as body fat. Supplements like glucosol and gymnenna sylvestre improve your glucose/insulin response and make your body less sensitive to carbohydrates. Supplements like chitosan bind to fats and decrease your body’s ability to absorb them. Many times these ingredients will be paired together to works synergistically.
I know… I know… a lot of fancy words that look like they’re in another language! I promise that I’ll be writing 2 more articles by the end of the week that will bring this information back down to earth… 1 on Fat Burners/Metabolism Boosters and 1 on Carbohydrate Controllers/Fat Blockers!