The Big Weight Loss Supplement Con

A combined team of researchers from the universities of Exeter and Plymouth, informed the International Conference on Obesity in Stockholm that food supplements that claim to assist in weight loss have no more effect than placebos. The team found no evidence that herbal or non herbal drugs work on reducing weight, and a German study from the university of Gottingen came to a similar conclusion. The UK team's study of existing data on guar gum, fat absorbers, appetite suppressants (chromium picolinate), dietary fibre additives, bitter orange and green tea found that there was no proof that any over the counter food supplements that claimed to help weight loss actually did any better than dummy pills, with the German study of nine weight loss products coming to the same conclusion.