After watching the US women national team beat Brazil 1-0, I was channel flipping and came across a commercial advertising a trial for Right Size smoothies. It’s yet another weight loss product aimed at people who are looking for ways to lose weight and fight fat. The creators of the product prided themselves on the fact that this smoothie was not only able to provide 20 (or more, I can’t remember) nutrients and taste good, but it was also an appetite suppressant.
A few chapters back in my studying for my cert exam in August, I remember reading about weight management, including hunger mechanisms and appetite. I read that appetite is partially psychological and is also genetic, and is used by the body to get the person to eat to avoid starvation. Hunger is different from appetite, in the sense that appetite is the desire to eat and can occur without being hungry, although they are both controlled by the hypothalamus with the use of hormones.
My question is how can a drink or commercial weight loss product control your appetite? I suppose if you drink it, you will feel full and won’t eat anymore, but doesn’t that happen when you just eat normal, healthy food? Is there something special in weight loss “foods” and “drinks” that actually maintains the release of hormones related to appetite? And just to make it clear, I’m not talking about prescription products, but commercial products that make claims that they control your appetite.
I don’t know much about these kinds of products yet, but watching that commercial just made me wonder. As usual, leave your two cents!
I’m always suspicious of those kinds of products- I agree with you that the same things going to happen if you just eat normal, healthy food. Plus the ingredients lists for those things include a bunch of different sugars and salt and additives that I have no idea what they even are! I think I’ll stick with my real food:)
Indeed! Only if other people took the time to find out what’s in those products instead of blindly trusting them…
The “magic” ingredient in this product is Appemine.
Rightsize throws a bunch of science at you here – http://www.rightsizeonline.com/appemine.htm – and, I guess, hopes you will be impressed enough to buy the product.
Their general claim is that this extract of green tea, cinnamon twig and galangal affects your adrenal receptors and kills your appetite/hunger/cravings.
The manufacturer, Rightsize Health Nutrition Corporation has been making this product for a few years now. As far as I can see, this direct marketing company is the only one selling this Appemine supplement.
Do you think they know something that the other supplement manufacturers don’t know?
Sounds like another version of the Goji juice scam
http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2007/01/goji.html
Doesn’t Special-K make a “protein water” drink that’s supposed to suppress your appetite?
How rediculous is that… spend $1.50 on a never-going-to-decompose bottle of flavored water with an infinitesimal amount of nutrients, as well as sugar and sucralose, and best of all – yellow #5 – a known toxin that not only many people have been found to be allergic to, it has also been shown to have links to asthma, childhood hyperactivity, and thyroid tumors!!
Yum!