Xenical Diet Pill Leads to Poorer Diet

Diet pills, they’ve had a rough go of it, links to heart disease, kids using them to get high, gross bowel movements and doubt as to whether they even work, a marketer’s nightmare. Time for more bad news!

A new study suggests the popular diet drug Orlistat, sold under the prescription name Xenical, doesn’t inspire people to improve their diets, instead individuals popping Xenical are more likely to eat worse. How’s that for irony.

Xenical works by blocking the absorption of fat in the intestines and people on the drug are advised to reduce their dietary fat intake, consuming no more than 30% of their calories from fat each day. Not doing so may result in loose stool, i.e. mud butt.

But people don’t follow the rules! Published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, researchers reveal of the 44 obese adults studied, men and women on Xenical, average daily calories from fat among Xenical users 33% and for the placebo group 28%. Participants were tracked over 3 years.

Scientists concluded that the drug did not place a governor on people’s diet choices, leaving Xenical’s manufacturer Roche Laboratories, Inc. scratching their collective heads; Reuters reports.

Makes sense, it’s a band aid approach, not a lifestyle. Oh, and did you know there was actually an appetite suppressant candy in the 80s called Ayds, pronounced AIDS! Talk about bad timing.

Resveratrol: Fountain of Youth or Waste of Money

Red wine drinkers have been toasting to better health and longer life with all of the news pieces on the miracle that is resveratrol - a component of red grape skin and some other fruits. Let’s sift through the claims and hype and see where the dust settles.

It was hard to ignore the headlines a couple of years ago. Newswires were replete with suggestions that resveratrol could boost health and lengthen life. Read beyond the headlines a bit though and you realize that this is only good news if you are a middle aged, overweight mouse. Still, the results were dramatic - mice given resveratrol became much healthier and lived about 25% longer than the mice who didn’t get resveratrol (Nature, 2006).

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3 Hour Diet Plan

The 3 Hour diet is all about meal frequency. By eating every 3 hours, blood sugar levels will be more consistent and the bodies metabolism will remain in a heightened state.

For most people this will equate to about 5 meals per day - breakfast, lunch, and dinner - with two snacks in between. The 3-Hour diet addresses processed and fast foods - and much of the sales pitch of the book is about being able to lose weight and still eat some “junk” foods.

Food groups should always be combined - i.e. protein should be eaten with carbohydrates and fat (and fruit and vegetables where possible). Cruise recommends drinking 8 glasses of water per day.

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3 Day Diet Meal Plan

This 3 day diet meal plan is not recommended for user for more than 3 days, why? because it’s used by those who experience. The 3 Day Diet is one of the most popular short-term fad diets around today. Many people adopt the diet to try and achieve short-term weight loss. However, unfortunately most people simply gain the weight back on again.

The 3 Day Diet is simply a low calorie diet (as can be seen by the meal plan). There is nothing magical - no mystical chemical reaction that goes on (as some seem to think). Weight loss is due to a sudden drop in calories - some of this may be fat - but most will be from water loss.

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