The “experts” in the media have repeated for years that the best way to lose excess fat is to take it off slowly and steadily.
A recent study shows that advice to be backwards.
Reducing your waistline very gradually, so that you only lose a pound or two a week, is the opposite of what you should do.
Instead, this study shows that if you want to lose a lot of weight and keep it off, do it rapidly.
“This randomized study highlights the urgent need for committees that develop clinical guidelines for the management of obesity to change their advice,” says researcher Joseph Proietto who heads the Weight Control Clinic at Austin Health in Melbourne.
The three-year study compared the weight lost and regained by two groups of obese Australians. Each group consisted of 100 people.
The first group followed a rapid weight loss program that limited participants to 800 calories or less per day for a 12-week period and just about completely cut out carbohydrates. The second group followed a less radical plan that only mildly cut calories over a period of about nine months.
While the first group shed an average of 3.3 pounds per week, the longer term group only lost about a pound every week.
The people who rapidly lost weight were more successful in their weight losing efforts.
In his practice, to help people in their efforts to drop fat, Dr. Isaac Eliaz recommends combinations of traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic and Western botanicals and nutrients scientifically proven to balance blood sugar, improve insulin sensitivity, boost metabolism, reduce inflammation and curb sugar cravings.
Particularly beneficial ones include:
- Gymnema leaf
- Cinnamon bark
- Fenugreek seed
- Jambolan seed
- Bitter melon
- Sodium Alginate
- Medicinal mushrooms (Grifola, Tremella and Cordyceps species)
- Alpha Lipoic Acid
- Chromium
- L-Taurine
These natural substances have been researched and proven to benefit metabolic health in a number of ways. They help you:
- Metabolizes fat and sugar.
- Restore insulin sensitivity for sugar metabolism.
- Better blood flow
- Lower inflammation
