Body Solutions: The truth about the liquid diet.

A 3-Phase diet program that incorporates many different weight loss supplements. The basis of the program is similar to Calorad. It is a diet and weight loss liquid supplement to be drunk before going to bed. The active incredients are collagen protein and aloe vera. They promote weight loss by burning stored fat and assist in building lean muscle mass. They work by encouraging the natural release of human growth hormone.

Review: The following excerpt of a review is by Kelly D. Brownell, PhD. He is an internationally known expert on eating disorders, obesity, and body weight regulation. He is a professor of psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as professor of epidemiology and public health and as director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. It is an excellent review.

Snooze Away the Pounds?

Question:
What do you think about the Body Solutions evening weight loss plan? And how long does it take before you see results?

Answer:

Aug. 27, 2001 -- I have done some homework on Body Solutions, both because of your question and because of hearing it advertised on a New York radio station.

First, let me say that I’ve been a weight loss advisor for WebMD for six months or so. By far the most frequently asked questions are about one popular product or another, almost always ones people see on infomercials, in ads in newspapers and magazines, or in stores that sell nutrition supplements for what seems to be every known human problem. Even if one product is shown to be harmful or ineffective, another one takes its place tomorrow.

So along comes Body Solutions, saying that it makes you lose weight while you sleep. According to the BodySolutions.com web site, their product has been used by thousands of people as the solution to their weight problems. But I’m not convinced that, for thousands of people, their weight loss problems are now gone because of Body Solutions.

Here’s why. At the Body Solutions web site I found testimonials -- claims that people lose weight easily and rapidly (what could be easier than losing while you sleep?) -- and, of course, an expert, in this case someone I have not heard of, Gilbert R. Kaats, PhD. There is even a list of research papers by Kaats that have been published in scientific journals.

First, to learn more about the quality and quantity of the science Kaats can provide to back up the Body Solutions claims, I went to something called Medline, a research tool where one can obtain abstracts of papers published in highly regarded journals. Despite having a long list of publications on the web site, Medline turned up only one paper of Kaats, not dealing with Body Solutions products. This came as a real surprise to me, because the journals he lists, such as the Journal of the American College of Nutrition and the International Journal of Obesity, did not come up on Medline as showing him as an author -- something very puzzling.

Second, from what I can tell from their web site, the main ingredient in Body Solutions is the trace element chromium picolinate. If you look up published studies on this compound, there is not a very impressive story of success and some concern with safety. In my own work, I would not recommend it.

Third, Body Solutions uses a common advertising ploy -- getting radio people to use their product and then endorse it. My best advice is to avoid anything you see advertised in this way. Over the years there have been hundreds of products that promise easy weight loss, saying you can lose weight while you sleep and other claims, but where are they now? Did any one, from that mass of products, really turn out to be the solution?

Sadly, there are no miracles for weight control. If one comes along, it will be on every news station and in every newspaper, so you wouldn’t be able to miss it if you tried. I wouldn’t bet a nickel that anything you see on an infomercial is truly the solution to this tough problem. Since there have been so many scams over the years, and since I have seen no evidence of any miracles, you might understand why I am so skeptical of things like Body Solutions.