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I you go to Consumer Health Answers  and find their article on Weight Loss Success: Which Weight Loss Products Are Most Effective?, you will find a hopefully unbiased rating for this product that compares it with it’s peers. It seems to rate well but the one thing that bothers me is their unwillingness to openly disclose their proprietary ingredient list. It may very well work, but they are not very forthcoming on the specific part of their ingredients that do the work. I suspect that it is very simple and cheap and if they disclosed that  portion of their product every  one would rush out and make their own and not pay the 139$ pricetag on this pricey product. I also question the rating site that also sells and advertises the product.

I left this inquiry with more questions than answers. I will tell you that in my extensive conversations with my professional peers (doctors included), the general consensus is that Weight Watchers ( sans their artificially sweetened products) is our favorite program because it retrains people how to portion control and learn how to eat a daily diet that will sustain health and be realistic. Many of these weight loss products will produce temporary results by overstimulation of the cardiovascular and nervous systems and cause you to “borrow” on your health credit card, or they will not teach you new habits of maintenance (only working as long as you buy and use them) leaving you to undo or regain what you may have lost- leaving you in the same boat you started in. And, I might add, still owing on your health credit card at the end.  Many  people leave off with a caffeine addiction. or potentiate heart or nervous system problems that they end up having to deal with while no better off than they were before. I have seen some of these products assist people temporarily off of a plateau, but they must be in some type of diet and exercise lifestyle change and management program to keep it off and be successful  during and afterwards.

I think I have seen most of what’s out there including some of the newer products that are barely off of the ground and none of them will work standing alone without any other changes to lifestyle and eating habits. That has to be in place to stay successful. It can be done, but no product out there can work forever, healthfully ,without those other factors of diet and exercise considered and in place.

Insulin management and control, and dealing with the epidemic “hyperinsulinemia” that most Americans are somewhere on downhill slide of, is where it is at metabolically speaking. Managing and controlling cellular resistance to insulin will control our tendency to store fat and waste muscle. Read Michael and Mary Dan Eades, ” Protein Power” book, especially the first 85 and last 100 pages of the book where the physiology is explained and you will get a first class education on why the American diet is encouraging weight gain, high blood pressure, diabetes (type II), high cholesterol and high triglycerides. I also believe that their understanding and approach can be done by any dietary code if planned out carefully. The book explains how to approach it with the consumption of animal products but I believe with some of the higher quality and newer vegetable protien products out there like Garden of Life’s Raw Protein Powder or  the raw sprouted rice protein products from Sun Warrior that have good amino acids profiles on them , it can be done vegetarian as well. I have seen good measurable clinical results with the application of their program in the book ( Protein Power), most notably a doctor that trained me on the book- 11 years ago- Dr. Steve Komadina, then a New Mexico State senator that had lost over a hundred pounds on their program and gotten off of every drug he was on and gotten rid of every ailment. That is one of the better text in hand approaches that a person could fathom and apply without any assistance from anyone but backing of their health care provider and proper clearing for the diet. This book will give you better decision making ability and better understanding of some other harmful societal fallacies and misunderstandings that have been perpetuated by incorrect information still being disseminated today. Don’t let the title put you off, or their advocacy of animal proteins- the information  and their explanations are sound.