Category: Weight Loss
Citrus extract Sinetrol reduces fat mass but increases lean body mass
About five years ago we wrote a piece on the slimming supplement Sinetrol, about the fact that it could help you lose up to half a kilogram a week. An [...]
Clever appetite suppressant slimming combo: Citrus aurantium and Rhodiola rosea
An effective slimming supplement doesn't have to be packed full with potentially hazardous stimulants. A carefully balanced combination of Citrus aura [...]
Lose four kg in a couple of days: and keep it off a year later
If you eat extremely little food for a couple of days and do lots of exercise and you're overweight, you can lose 4-5 kg. And yes: the positive effect [...]
Diet with less sodium and more potassium has slight slimming effect
If there is relatively less sodium and more potassium in your diet you'll automatically be a little slimmer. The link between slimness and the sodium- [...]
DMAE as slimming supplement
DMAE - full name 2-dimethylaminoethanol – is not just a life extender and a smart drug that can induce lucid dreams; it's also a slimming supplement. [...]
Twelve weeks’ training with HMB Free Acid: 7 kg lean body mass gain, 5 kg fat loss
HMB Free Acid
Lose 5 kg fat, gain 7 kg lean body mass and add 13 kg to your top bench-press weight: this is what bodybuilders can expect if they train [...]
Aromatase inhibitors give women more muscle mass
Anastrozole ~ Men show little change in body composition if you block their estradiol production with the enzyme aromatase. [Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 20 [...]
Obesity: Not just what you eat
To understand how obesity develops, researchers used state-of-the-art technology to analyze the accumulation of fat in the body at the cellular level, [...]
Raloxifene: anti-oestrogen that boosts lean body mass and reduces fat
Tamoxifen, an effective anti-oestrogen that's popular among doping users, has a drawback. For women at least, in the longer term, its use reduces lean [...]
Half an hour a day of cardio works almost as well as an hour
For healthy but slightly overweight people in their twenties and thirties half an hour of cardio training a day has almost the same positive health ef [...]
Rapid weight loss without losing muscle: combine intermittent fasting and cardio
Sports scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago may have stumbled on the best way for overweight people to lose weight. Their study suggest [...]
Overweight people can best combine cardio and strength training
Obese people who want to exercise will gain most benefit from combining cardio (or endurance) training and strength training. Researchers at the Unive [...]
Supplement containing ECGC, resveratrol and Grape Seed Extract shown to work
If you were to consume 282 mg EGCG, 200 mg resveratrol, 92 mg Grape Seed Extract and 25 mg polyphenols from wed wine daily, you'd lose 3.4 kg fat in s [...]
There is something fishy about Acacia rigidula supplements
There's probably a problem with all slimming supplements that contain Acacia rigidula. Almost half of the products containing Acacia rigidula actually [...]
High dose of biotin sabotages fat cell growth
Large – but not absurdly so – doses of the vitamin biotin reduce the amount of triglycerides in the blood and they reduce fat mass too. Molecular rese [...]
