Five Hidden Factors in Weight Gain

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Seaweed Extracts Can Help You Lose Weight, Mostly Body Fat

'Alginated-based supplements from seaweed enhanced the weight loss results of an energy-restricted diet, suggests new data from Denmark.


Using the commercially available sodium alginate Protanal LFR 5/60 from FMC Biopolymers, researchers from the University of Copenhagen report that obese people taking the alginate supplements lost an average of 1.74 kg more of body weight than those on placebo.


The additional loss of body weight was "mainly attributed to a reduction in the percentage of body fat", they wrote in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.


"These results suggested that alginate may be a potential agent to achieve a clinically relevant reduction in body weight in obese subjects when consumed as prescribed as an adjuvant to an energy-restricted diet."'

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Black Pepper May Be All You Need To Block The Formation of New Fat Cells

'Who on earth doesn't want to block the formation of new fat? Maybe Sumo wrestlers, eating champions or even some football players, but for the majority of us, we don't want more fat. If something natural can block the formation of new fat cells, even better. A new study published in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, explains how black pepper can reduce fat levels in the bloodstream.


The study provides a long-sought explanation for the beneficial fat-fighting effects of black pepper. The research pinpoints piperine -- the pungent-tasting substance that gives black pepper its characteristic taste, concluding that piperine can also block the formation of new fat cells.'


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