German Scientists Have Found That Many Food Supplements For Weight Loss Are No Better Than Placebo

German Scientists Have Found That Many Food Supplements For Weight Loss Are No Better Than Placebo.
A big bunch of weight-loss supplements don't appear to knead any better than placebos (or fake supplements) at helping rank and file shed pounds, a new study has found. German researchers tested placebos against weight-loss supplements that are all the rage in Europe. The supplements were touted as having these ingredients: L-Carnitine, polyglucosamine, cabbage powder, guarana egg powder, bean extract, Konjac extract, fiber, sodium alginate and unavoidable plant extracts.

So "We found that not a single product was any more effective than placebo pills in producing burden loss over the two months of the study, regardless of how it claims to work," said researcher Thomas Ellrott, belfry of the Institute for Nutrition and Psychology at the University of Gottingen Medical School in Germany, in a word release from the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm, Sweden. The researchers tested the products and placebos on 189 overweight or overweight people, of whom 74 percent finished the eight-week study.

While some participants mystified weight, there wasn't a significant difference between those who took the placebos and those who took the earnest supplements, they reported. At least some of the supplements are available in the United States. "L-Carnitine is in US supplements, polyglucosamide is found in chitosan, which is still in some weight-loss supplements, and guarana was ordered removed from weight-loss supplements, but it has slowly worked its passage back into some products," said Connie Diekman, number one of university nutrition at Washington University in St Louis and quondam president of the American Dietetic Association.

And "The channel message here that I would encourage people to hear is that medications aren't the glamour answer to weight loss. Changes in eating and activity behaviors are the course to long-term changes in weight. For those who are extremely overweight, or those whose health is at risk, a conversation with their doctor about some of the prescription drugs is advisable, but even then changes in behavior are key to maintenance of a healthier weight" discounteru.com. The contemplate findings were scheduled to be released Monday at the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm.