Synergy and Weight Loss
Today seems to be the day when I can get some extra work done, mainly because it's so quiet around here! My wife has gone out to do one of her many projects, and cats are not clawing at me for attention. This type of household serenity is very rare, so I'm making the most of it.
Taking advantage of the quiet, I just finished reading a really interesting article from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, published in 2007. The article comes to some extremely attention-grabbing conclusions.
The article states that members of a study that was performed on people who took fish oil regularly and performed a moderate amount of exercise were able to lose weight. Additionally, those people showed an increase in muscle mass as well as a remarkable decrease in risk factors for cardiac problems.
The people who took fish oil, but did not do any exercise, did not lose weight and those who took sunflower oil had the same results.
The group that showed the weight loss results were given between 3 and 6 grams of fish oil every day. Typically, the dose would be lower, but we have to assume that the people in the group had a great deal of weight to lose and therefore their dosage was high.
There was also an article that contained a review of the study itself, and the author makes points which are precisely along the lines of what I have been saying.
1. Spend your money wisely -- on a good product. You need to be taking a very high-grade, high-potency fish oil, one that is molecularly distilled and contains no contaminants or PCBs.
2. Your fish oil should not taste fishy, or give you "fish burps." This is why you should only take fish oil that has an enteric coating. This insures the softgels travel deep into the digestive system before they are released.
3. Flax oil is not a good substitute. You would need to ingest 12 grams of flaxseed oil to get the benefit of two high quality fish oil softgels. And you might just have to spend a lot more time in the water closet than you want to.
If you want to create synergy for weight loss, try enteric coated pharmaceutical grade fish oil, good food, and moderate exercise. - 17274
Taking advantage of the quiet, I just finished reading a really interesting article from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, published in 2007. The article comes to some extremely attention-grabbing conclusions.
The article states that members of a study that was performed on people who took fish oil regularly and performed a moderate amount of exercise were able to lose weight. Additionally, those people showed an increase in muscle mass as well as a remarkable decrease in risk factors for cardiac problems.
The people who took fish oil, but did not do any exercise, did not lose weight and those who took sunflower oil had the same results.
The group that showed the weight loss results were given between 3 and 6 grams of fish oil every day. Typically, the dose would be lower, but we have to assume that the people in the group had a great deal of weight to lose and therefore their dosage was high.
There was also an article that contained a review of the study itself, and the author makes points which are precisely along the lines of what I have been saying.
1. Spend your money wisely -- on a good product. You need to be taking a very high-grade, high-potency fish oil, one that is molecularly distilled and contains no contaminants or PCBs.
2. Your fish oil should not taste fishy, or give you "fish burps." This is why you should only take fish oil that has an enteric coating. This insures the softgels travel deep into the digestive system before they are released.
3. Flax oil is not a good substitute. You would need to ingest 12 grams of flaxseed oil to get the benefit of two high quality fish oil softgels. And you might just have to spend a lot more time in the water closet than you want to.
If you want to create synergy for weight loss, try enteric coated pharmaceutical grade fish oil, good food, and moderate exercise. - 17274
About the Author:
Dr. Bill takes only one form of enteric coated fish oil to help his own health and wellbeing.
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