Originally published November 18 2003
Do meal replacement products really help people lose weight?
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
A study says meal replacement products actually help people lose weight. But there's only one way this is possible: if people are using these products to replace even worse foods and drinks. That's because meal replacement products like Slim-Fast are loaded with refined sugars. Obviously, if you've been eating ice cream for lunch every day and you switch to Slim-Fast, you'll lose some weight (or at least not get fat so quickly). Is that really progress? I don't think so, and I think that any product claiming to help people lose weight should not be made with sugar. It's a deception, and I believe the FDA should declare all such weight loss products to be illegally labeled.
- People who followed a meal
replacement plan for 10 years weighed, on average, about 33 pounds less
than people who didn't use a meal replacement plan.
- This is one of the longest ever weight control studies to track how
well people controlled their weight using a particular weight control
program -- Slim-Fast shakes and bars in this case -- over a long period
of time.
- The study's senior author is Dr. George L. Blackburn, director of the
Center for the Study of Nutrition Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center and associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical
School.
- The 130 people who used the meal replacements as part of their weight
management program maintained an average weight loss of 6 pounds after
10 years.
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