Really, really, nice
Well, there I was listening to "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe," which you can find through the button in my sidebar, and they reported a scientific study which I was able to find here. Heat of the meat? Mice engineered to burn fat before carbs weighed just the same as regular mice, and with the same body composition. After all the xenadrine reviews and weight loss gimickry that some scheisters in the industry have try to feed people, here is some definate, concise proof that the rest of us have been right all along. Your body burns calories it needs, and stores the rest as fat, no matter where they started.
Now, that's not to say that some of them don't work, but it's not likely to be the ones that say they'll block your body from burning carbs and help you go straight to burning fat. For example, even the xenadrine I mentioned above used to be pretty effective. It contained an ingredient called ephedra which seems to be pretty good at jacking up your metabolism at the right dosage. The problem was, it was linked to several deaths in otherwise healthy individuals.
And that's the problem with these things. If it actually works well, it IS a drug, period. If it is a drug, the FDA should control. If the FDA doesn't control it, then either a) it's not a drug and thus won't work, or b) it isn't understood to be a drug although it is, and is dangerous to use until the FDA has established safe guidelines for it.
A lot of reviews of green tea, though, for example find that only the caffeinated green teas help with weight loss. Hmmm, green tea doing the work? Or caffeine? We know that caffeine will speed up your metabolism, and is classified as a drug. Yes, the FDA has unsafe limits for caffeine. It takes several pots of coffee, but it's there. Less than that extreme dosage seems to be safe, and thats why most diet pills can get away with using caffeine as an ingredient. In fact, most of them DO. I'll just drink the coffee.
At any rate, while there are benefits to eating wholesome food, this goes to show that where your body gets its calories isn't as important as how many calories it gets, and the important thing is to exercise and eat well.
Now, that's not to say that some of them don't work, but it's not likely to be the ones that say they'll block your body from burning carbs and help you go straight to burning fat. For example, even the xenadrine I mentioned above used to be pretty effective. It contained an ingredient called ephedra which seems to be pretty good at jacking up your metabolism at the right dosage. The problem was, it was linked to several deaths in otherwise healthy individuals.
And that's the problem with these things. If it actually works well, it IS a drug, period. If it is a drug, the FDA should control. If the FDA doesn't control it, then either a) it's not a drug and thus won't work, or b) it isn't understood to be a drug although it is, and is dangerous to use until the FDA has established safe guidelines for it.
A lot of reviews of green tea, though, for example find that only the caffeinated green teas help with weight loss. Hmmm, green tea doing the work? Or caffeine? We know that caffeine will speed up your metabolism, and is classified as a drug. Yes, the FDA has unsafe limits for caffeine. It takes several pots of coffee, but it's there. Less than that extreme dosage seems to be safe, and thats why most diet pills can get away with using caffeine as an ingredient. In fact, most of them DO. I'll just drink the coffee.
At any rate, while there are benefits to eating wholesome food, this goes to show that where your body gets its calories isn't as important as how many calories it gets, and the important thing is to exercise and eat well.
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