I know a few people have mentioned the carb blockers before, so I thought some might be interested in the article. I've been wondering if the starch blockers were worth the effort myself. Honestly thought about them.
http://www.woai.com/health/diet/sto...9B-405E0283A85C
Starch Blockers: Have Your Starch & Eat It Too?
LAST UPDATE: 2/25/2004 6:03:56 AM
Posted By: Mandi Bishop
Attention carb cutters! New products now claims you can have your cake and eat it, without putting on the pounds. Are the new "starch blockers" everything they promise to be? News 4 WOAI uncovers what's in the new diet pills that manufacturers don't want you to know about.
Adam Martin with Body Care Specialist tells News 4 WOAI, "As fast as they can move off the shelf, we're selling many a day."
They're called everything from "Carb Blockers" to "Starch Busters" to "Starch Away." They all promise just about the same thing: To block carbohydrates before your body turns them into calories. Sounds pretty good since carbs are everywhere. If you think carbs make you fat, these products claim to be just what you need.
"That's pretty much the customer that's coming in," Martin explains, "trying to stay with the Atkins program."
Jesse Seratos lost 25 pounds in 4 months on the Atkins program by cutting out carbs. For two weeks, we had him test the "Metabolife Starch Buster" pills, and pile the carbs while taking them. The result?
"It prevented me from gaining weight," Seratos says, but Jesse says the stomach ache that followed wasn't worth eating the extra starch. "It says they block carbs from your system, but I think it does that by dissolving everything you eat!"
We did some checking on the starch blockers main ingredient. It's called Phaeseolous Vulgaris, or "Phase 2." We found out the "starch neutralizer" in most of these products is nothing more than starch itself.
"Phaeseolous" is the latin word for "white kidney bean," which is full of carbohydrates. Check out some of the ingredients we found listed on the different bottles. Dextrose and dextrin. Our experts say these are just fancy words for sugar! Other ingredients include Cellulose and Cellulose Gum, otherwise known as fiber!
We also checked nutrition reference books and found out the kidney bean is a natural diuretic. That would explain why our tester, Seratos, experienced stomach cramps, and why he didn't gain any weight. Scott Hollis with University Hospital's Pharmacy says, "The fact of the matter is that the FDA does not endorse the use of any of these." He says that means neither should you. "With a starch blocker," Hollis explains, "the main thing is the impact on your budget," not your waist-line
An article I found on the carb blockers stores have out now.
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