Thu, Jul-18-02, 09:26
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Posts: 352
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Plan: Modified 'BODYOPUS'
Stats: 238/212/200
BF:22%/11%/7%
Progress: 68%
Location: Columbus, OH
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THANKS ZOUS
WHO MAKES THE PILLS? HOW LONG DID YOU TAKE THEM?
I WANT SOME BREAD SOOOOO BAD. I NEED SOMETHING TO HELP ME OUT .
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-Well, I don't know who 'ZOUS' is... anyways, I didn't buy any pills ('carb-blockers'), I'm not stupid enough to. I dug up a little article on 'carb-blockers'- here are your answers as to why you shouldn't take them; they are worthless:
"There was an element of truth in these claims: a substance
called phaseolamin can be extracted from beans which, when
mixed in a test tube with amylase (the enzyme which normally
digests starch in the small bowel) inactivates the enzyme. The
untrue part was that by eating phaseolamin you could stop the
absorption of the calories in your diet. The reason is that
phaseolamin is itself a protein, so the protein-digesting enzymes
in the stomach break it up into amino acids. By the time it gets
into the small bowel, where starch digestion takes place, the
phaseolamin has itself been digested, and has no effect on
starch digestion. We showed this by feeding starch labelled with
heavy carbon to volunteers who took either "starch blocker" or
placebo capsules, and found that the rate at which the starch
was metabolised was unaffected by the "starch blocker"', and
other studies also confirmed that the in vitro effect was not
seen."
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