| New Review: Diet Patches
Diet patches, according to the heaps of spam flooding into my mailbox, are a dieter's dream (incidentally, the US Federal Trade Commission has recently charged several companies using spam to sell bogus diet patches -- click here for more!). Throw on a diet patch, and watch the weight melt away, no matter what you eat.
Sound familiar?
It should. But it should not come as a surprise that it's just not that easy.
So let's talk about diet patches. Let's forget about whether the various diet patches actually deliver the ingredients they claim to, and whether those ingredients are effectively delivered through the skin transdermally. Let's instead ask the most important question...
1) Are the ingredients these patches provide actually all that effective at promoting weight loss?
Although there are many different types of patches on the market, most contain a blend of four main ingredients...
i) guarana -- standardized for caffeine, a stimulant which has mild fat burning or thermogenic properties.
ii) chromium -- useful to help regulate insulin function and balance blood sugar levels.
iii) garcinia cambogia (standardized for HCA -- hydroxycitric acid): touted to prevent the conversion of carbohydrates into fat by inhibiting the action of the enzyme citrate lyase. Although there has been some promising results shown with HCA, a recent study published Journal of the American Medical Association (11/11/98), showed that HCA supplementation failed to produce any measurable weight loss. The study focused on 135 overweight individuals for a 3 month period.
Read the rest of the Diet Patch
review online!
Worth Another Mention: All Star Trainer's Secrets
If you missed it from last issue, here's what I said about Lewis Wolk's superb All Star Trainers Secrets...
I review a lot of nutrition, fitness and weight loss books and e-books on Ultimatefatburner.com. Some are good, some are so-so, and once in a very great while, one comes a long that is exceptionally well done. Lewis Wolk's All Star Trainer's Secrets is one of those few products that make me sit and go...
"Wow! This is great stuff."
What Lewis has done with this publication is brought the wisdom of 11 of the Net's qreatest fitness and weight loss gurus together into one nicely formatted, easily accessible PDF document (also known as an e-book).
Read the rest of the review online!
Bottom line?
It's a great publication. Check out the review!
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