If you are thinking of taking Fat Metaboliser tablets in order to lose weight, I suggest you think again.

I've been looking at a health food store's website and at the page about Fat Metaboliser tablets. - It states:

Fat Metaboliser is designed as an easy to use
lifestyle plan to help achieve weight loss when
combined with exercise and a low-fat diet
plan.

and

This product
can help weight control only as part of a calorie
controlled diet.

BUT

1. There is no evidence whatever that exercise and a low-fat intake result in weight loss for overweight people. And there is some evidence that low fat intake tends to cause depression. If you feel you need to get rid of excess fat, here is some helpful, factual advice: see FAT RETENTION

2. There is no evidence whatever that a calorie controlled diet results in weight loss for overweight people. - There is evidence, however, that when overweight people reduce calories they frequently GAIN weight... (This is because inadequate calorie intake increases fluid retention - the cause of obesity - in overweight people.) - And the small proportion who lose weight are greatly harmed by the dieting and die sooner than the overweight people who do NOT diet...

Calorie counting and advice about increasing exercise and reducing fat intake to reduce obesity are ineffective, counter-productive and often damaging. - See the article in the British Medical Journal of November 2003 http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7423/1085 for actual research on what happens when this advice is followed! - Over 800 obese adults were put on energy deficit diets, given diet sheets and plenty of instruction and help from trained staff, and apparently, visited fortnightly for a year, at the end of which they had GAINED weight! This mirrors the real experience of obese people, viz. - dieting makes you fat.

It is commonly accepted now, except by the 'experts', that less than 5% of dieters actually lose weight, and most gain weight as a result of dieting. - Even the ones who manage to lose weight do not usually improve their health. - See http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1515455,00.html for a report in The Guardian of Monday, June 27th 2005. It is about a huge research study of nearly 3000 people over a period of 18 years. The study found that overweight people who diet to reach a healthier weight are more likely to die young than those who remain fat. It also found that dieting causes physiological damage that in the long term can outweigh the benefits of the weight loss.

Salty food causes fluid retention/weight gain/obesity in people who are sensitive to salt, so for overweight people to lose weight they need to avoid eating salt and salty food.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/.html (The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

Children and Obesity

vulnerable groups

See Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions

amitriptyline

prescribed steroids and HRT

advice for pregnant mothers

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/socio.html - social and economic considerations

Obesity and its connection to deaths from breast cancer.

Breast disease warning to obese women

Extract from the Telegraph:

"For every 11lb gained after diagnosis, the women faced an increased risk of death from the cancer of 14 per cent. Poor diet can lead to higher levels of the hormone insulin, which scientists believe plays a role in the growth of cancer cells.

Dr Melinda Irwin, of Yale University's School of Public Health, said: "Patients should take steps to lower blood insulin levels, including exercise and a low-fat diet.""

Yet again a doctor is giving the wrong advice...)o: - Exercise and a low fat diet will NOT reduce weight... - Cutting down on salt/sodium in the safe, effective, rapid way to lose excess weight, because this reduces fluid retention, and fluid retention is the cause of overweight/obesity.

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and heart problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/.html (The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/steroids.html

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/ami.html

vulnerable groups

How to Lose weight!

Children and Obesity

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

See Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions and

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/story.html - my 'political' page

Wider implications of the flawed theory that excess calorie intake causes obesity

I can be contacted via my website if you need my further help. My help is free.

Are you trying to stick to a low fat diet and finding it difficult and finding that it makes you feel low? - You are not alone!

I found this interesting webpage a few days ago - Anthony Colpo - Why the Low-Fat Diet is Stupid and Potentially Dangerous and I was pleased to find such sensible advice and that it is backed up by authoritative articles and scientific evidence.

Extract:

"For years Anthony Colpo has maintained The Omnivore, a website bursting at the seams with articles and insights into studies and claims about being healthy - all with references to studies.

This week, Colpo penned "Why the Low-Fat Diet is Stupid and Potentially Dangerous" - a lengthy and well referenced article about the null findings from the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial."

To lose weight you do not need to reduce fat intake or calorie intake. - You need only to reduce salt intake, because this reduces fluid retention, and it is fluid retention that causes obesity. - Dieting is unnecessary, ineffective and dangerous to health.

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk and
Mensa article - Obesity and the Salt Connection
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)