{"id":2222,"date":"2010-12-08T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/fabuless-is-it-stupendous-or-just-stupid.html"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:39:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:39:11","slug":"fabuless-is-it-stupendous-or-just-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"“Fabuless.” Is It Stupendous, or just Stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Fabuless is a vegetable-oil emulsion. You’re supposed to drink it.  No kidding! That gives me the gag reflex, just thinking about it. <\/span>

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I can only imagine that a person would take this product either <\/span>
1)<\/b> because you’re a part of a study and they paid you to do it because you’re a graduate student who doesn’t have 2 nickels to rub together; <\/span>
2)<\/b> because you just don’t know what else to do and the ad you read had skinny, smiling people on it; or <\/span>
3)<\/b> because you basically just do random things and don’t really mind drinking a vegetable-oil emulsion<\/u><\/i>. Eww.  <\/span>

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Here’s the study that the diet product maker funded<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Their researchers recruited 43 overweight women to participate. The average age of the women was 47.9 and their average BMI at the start of the study was 28.25 kg\/m2.<\/span><\/div>\n
After a six week calorie-controlled weight loss program the women were randomly assigned to receive a single meal replacement plan with a Fabuless supplement, or the meal plan plus a dairy control (cream with equal level of fat) for a further 12 weeks.<\/span><\/div>\n
Results showed that women in the Fabuless group lost an average of 0.9 percent more body fat mass, compared with the control group. Less than 1%. Of course, the product makers hail this as a wonderful breakthrough … I’m not convinced, and don’t see myself drinking oil-water any time soon. <\/span><\/div>\n

<\/a>Fabuless may promote body fat loss under weight loss conditions: Study<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>For more information: Click here to visit Will Clower’s website. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fabuless is a vegetable-oil emulsion. You’re supposed to drink it.  No kidding! 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