If you're considering using a fat loss supplements such as a
fat or carb blocker or binder, but aren't sure of what kind to use, you first
need to check your diet and ask yourself this:
Am I consuming too many carbohydrates or too many fats?
This is extremely important as some people tend to jump on
the band wagon of the latest weight loss supplement to hit the stores, only to
find out they haven't addressed their diet clearly enough.
We put on weight because we simply eat more calories than we
can burn each day - that's the simple fact of the matter.
Now, if you're consuming a lot of unhealthy fats, these in
short include:
Unhealthy Fats
Commercially baked
pastries, cakes, pizza's
Fried foods
Butter, cheese,
ice cream, lard
Candy, crisps,
chips
Whole fat dietary
products
High fat cuts of
meat
Microwaved foods
These are both trans fats and saturated fats, but in essence
both are unhealthy fats.
Therefore, if it's these types of food you are consuming
each day, then when choosing a fat loss supplement, you should opt for a fat
blocker or a fat binder.
There are some products which combine both the binding and
blocking of fats, however each can be individually effective on their own.
Unhealthy Carbs
Processed foods,
cakes, chips, biscuits
Enriched pasta
Sweetened fizzy
drinks
White sugar
Refined white rice
White bread
These are unhealthy carbs if consumed regularly without any
exercise and as you can see, cakes, cookies and chips contain unhealthy carbs
and fats so best avoided altogether if you're serious about your diet.
So when it comes to addressing diets that consume high
levels of unhealthy fats or carbs, both types of supplements effectively work
the same way.
Fat/Carb Binding:
Simply, you take a fat or carb binding supplement
approximately 30 minutes prior to your main meal then when you eat, the
supplements ingredients attach themselves to the fatty acids or carbs in the
meal, restricting them from being digested, where they then pass on and out
through the body.
Of these supplements, Proactol is probably the most capable
of fat binder's, binding up to about 27% of your fat intake per meal.
For carbohydrate binders, there are very few of these on the
market and the simple reason for this is, is that carbs are more important to
our health than fats, although healthy fats are still needed.
However, the science of binding digested carbohydrates has
not been perfected, and as such supplements are unable to distinguish between
unhealthy and healthy carbs, and as binders tend to be more effective than
blocking supplements, it's as yet, not advisable to take this type of dietary
pill.
Fat/Carb Blockers
Fat and carb blockers work by restricting certain enzymes
from breaking down these unhealthy foods, blocking up to a certain percentage
of absorption of fat or carbohydrate into the blood stream.
Phen375 and Adiphene appear to be most popular in the West
for blocking fats, where as Adiphene is also one of the few that blocks carbs,
although to a lesser extent than unhealthy fats consumed, but it is still
argued to be effective at its task.
Bottom line:
Work out what kind of foods you're over indulging in that
are adding to the calories, then decide for yourself whether you'd like to
assist your diet with a supplement that blocks or binds unhealthy fats or
carbs, to speed up your diet plan effectively.