Been Preloading W/ Guar Gum & FOS For One Week and Your Abs Still Don't Shine? Study Shows: It May Take Less Fiber, but More Time for the Anti-Obesity Effects to Show
Luckily, you don't have to have a pound of fructo-oligosaccharide (FOS) or guar gum (GG) before every meal. 8g per day will suffice to induce significant reductions in food intake and limit fat gain - at least that's what the most recent study from AgroParisTech says. Impatience and the resulting inability / unwillingness to adhere to diet and lifestyle interventions to see results is one of the most important reasons people fail to lose body fat. Against that background it is important to put the results of pertinent study into perspective, not just in terms of what you can expect (dieting alone won't give you abs like those of the guys on the cover of fitness magazines), but also in terms of the time-frame over which the changes occur. This is particularly important when we are dealing with rodent studies. While every SuppVersity reader knows that you must not translate the amount of supplements used in rodent studies 1:1 to humans ( learn how it works ), I must co...