Carb Blockers??
Some of my friends are getting started on using some carb blocker pills. They sent me the description. Is this dangerous for them? It sounds like they might end up not getting enough calories.
Here is the description: NUTRILITE® Carb Blocker 2 May block up to 500 calories per meal. 90 tablets per bottle, with recommended serving of three tablets. Full Description Introducing the first and only dietary supplement that provides an exclusive blend of natural plant extracts that blocks both sugars and starches to help you lose weight. Laboratory tests show that one three-tablet serving of Carb Blocker 2 has a powerful carbohydrate-blocking effect. These results suggest that a similar action in humans may help block up to 500 calories when consumed with a high-carbohydrate meal. • A gentle way to help control calorie absorption from table sugar, and starches such as breads, cereals, pasta, rice, potatoes, peas, dried beans, and other carbohydrate-rich foods. • Still gives your body the benefit of the vitamins, minerals, and fiber found in carbohydrate-containing foods. • Natural, non-stimulating carbohydrate control. • Helps to control swings in blood sugar that trigger hunger. • Helps keep you feeling fuller longer. Retail Price: $39.95 |
No, it doesn't work. Someone else had questioned this at an earlier date, and I found the following information from a physician:
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I started researching Phase 2 Carb blockers and these new type of pills are different from the old ones which were ineffective.
I started taking them today and I hope that these along with the South Beach diet will help me to lose more weight. 10. How does new Phase 2® differ from the old Starch Blockers and other bean extracts? Phase 2® has been clinically studied several times, and has proven to be effective in humans. Phase 2® is a brand new, highly-concentrated standardized extract made from a specific fraction of specially-sized Great Northern white kidney bean through proprietary processes. The so-called amylase inhibitors of the 1980's, and typical bean extracts, are simple whole bean powders or extracts with little or no clinical background. |
Yeah riiiiiggghhtt...
Sorry to sound somewhat skeptical, but praise from the very company who is marketing the product doesn't exactly strike me as nonbiased...so it's been clinically studied (most likely by the company itself...you know the tobacco industry has tons of clinical studies (funded by the companies of course) showing positively that cigarette smoking is NOT harmful... :lol: ). I find it interesting that the studies on the website (BTW I removed the URL from your post as it is against forum rules - folks can always Google it if they want to find it) have apparently NOT been published in peer-reviewed journals - otherwise they would list the publication, date published, author, etc. I think I'll save my money... |
The South Beach Diet on it's own will give great results! Something else to consider is that your body needs some carbs, at least the good carbs that are allowed on the south beach diet. Regarding bad or excessive carbs, block them with your fork :)
This product, if it does work, claims to only work on the carbs in pasta and bread, and not on carbs derived from the sugars in foods. You'll be strictly limiting these foods on South Beach anyway. |
Remember the old saying....If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is???? I think this may be one of those things!
BOB |
The key word with these products is "MAY" - as in 'may block up to 500 calories' if you follow the low calorie diet they include you will lose weight - without the pill. Another waste of money.
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More on Carb Blockers
I just got finished reading an article on carb blockers in this month's Woman's World (o.k. it's not Newsday, but it's not the Enquirer either). Anyway they talked about carb blockers coming a long way since the 80's. Has anyone been on the newer versions of carb blockers (and the articles stresses that the ingredients must have the words Phase 2 -- not necessarily the brand Phase 2). I would love to know. I'm sick of denying myself food and could only dream (and that may be all that this is, I don't know), that this would work. My main concern also, is if this is considered healthy. I want to lose weight so as to improve my health, but I don't want to jeopardize my health in the process.
Thanks. RoseAnn;) |
Okay, let's put it this way as I see it:
1) Women's World has a 'miracle diet product' or 'miracle diet' EVERY ISSUE. (like all periodicals - they want to sell magazines and they need content - not necessarily verified). 2) Obesity is SUCH a worldwide concern that if these 'carb blockers' REALLY WORKED, you wouldn't just be reading about them in some crummy yellow journalism mag - they would be LAUDED on the front pages of the nation's leading newspapers, as well as JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) etc. Sadly...as BOB said...there is NO miracle out there, other than what you do on your OWN (lifestyle changes through diet and exercise). Just my (final) two cents on the topic of carb blockers. |
If it really worked it would be too expensive for real people to afford. It's just another gimmick to get your money.
A pill didn't make us fat and a pill won't make us thin...my .02. start 209# current 153# goal 150# 5'7" still 5'7" |
Okay ONE MORE WORD from me...
About carb blockers...found this elsewhere:
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If Carb Blockers or any other diet aid was actually viable, you'd not be able to buy OTC, you'd have to have a prescription for it, cause some pharm co. like Glaxco would own it and charge a fortune for it, it wouldn't be readily available to the masses.
Mrs. J is right about "Woman's World." Who can trust a rag that touts a new 'miracle diet' weekly? Spend your money on healthy food instead. |
To be honest, I have tried all of this stuff. These companies should be the ones under fire, not the Food and Drink companies. I have decided to take my own responsibility and begin to eat healthfully and exercise daily. I hope you all have a healthy weekend!
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My Father is diabetic and has been taking Starchaway (or whatever) available at WalMart for about a year now. Although he hasn't lost any weight, he has noticed a significant improvement in his blood sugar after eating meals with the blocker versus eating meals without.
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It is so sad that we all bite into these stupid products no matter what they are. They see us coming for sure. Ugly as it is, we are LAZY! Too lazy to eat right and work on a program, too lazy to get off our butts and exercise...We are not too lazy to waste time and money trying to find a MIRACLE PILL, BUT THERE AIN'T ONE! Not even the ones prescribed by doctors will just peel the fat off, you HAVE TO MAKE CHANGES TO YOUR LIFE FOR EVER AND THAT MEANS, PUSHING BACK FROM THE TABLE AND DO SOME PUSHUPS!
I have tried every stupid fad diet known to man but surgery which I think is WAYYYYYY too dangerous, so I can feel free to post here and be a little chastising. I weighed over 400 lbs in January and the only way I have had success is to have a nutritionally balanced cal and fat reducing diet and EXERCISING EVERYDAY! When you weigh 400 lbs it is NOT easy, but it can be done. I still have 170 lbs to lose, but by gosh I am going to do it and not with some stupid pill. I do use citrucel every morning and take a multi vitamin with green tea extract, but not for weight loss for menopause relief. The weight loss is a side benefit. EVERYONE PLEASE PLEASE WAKE UP TO WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING TO YOU! THEY ARE ROBBING YOU OF YOUR SELF RESPECT BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE THE BS! Faye |
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