“Fabuless.” Is It Stupendous, or just Stupid?

Posted On December 8, 2010

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

(please share this article with any who are tempted by stupid diet tricks)

I can only imagine that a person would take this product either
1) 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;
2) because you just don’t know what else to do and the ad you read had skinny, smiling people on it; or
3) because you basically just do random things and don’t really mind drinking a vegetable-oil emulsion. Eww.

Here’s the study that the diet product maker funded

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.

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.

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.

Fabuless may promote body fat loss under weight loss conditions: Study

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