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Several clinical investigations have shown that glucomannan can help people eat less food - especially bad foods. It can effectively satisfy your hunger and can create a slight negative caloric balance helping to drop the pounds without starving yourself. You'll feel like you're eating more with less. Glucomannan meets these goals primarily by making your food thicker - with fiber. Scientists have showed increased satisfaction with thicker foods by demonstrating that increased mastication (chewing and jaw action) can induce brain and gut signals that stimulate satiety within your entire digestive system. The bottom line is that thicker foods make you feel more satisfied. Thicker foods also make your stomach fuller, which increases satiety signals that tell your brain that you've had enough. These thicker foods will also travel more slowly through your digestive system allowing you to experience a sense fullness in your stomach for hours afterwards (instead of minutes, as in some cases). Glucomannan also causes food to be dispersed into your body for energy more slowly. As the food enters your small intestine, where all the nutrients are absorbed, these nutrients are taken up at a slower and steadier pace. Your body benefits by receiving a constant supply of fuel. This delivery is more desirable than receiving fuel in one large, short dose because when this happens, the body will tend to store the excess energy as fat. However, in the case of slow nutrient delivery, your body has time to burn the nutrients and turns more of it into fuel than an unsightly muffin-top All these features point towards a significant new theory in weight loss that has been well supported by scientific research. In one study conducted in 2005 by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York along with The Institute of Clinical Medicine at the University of Tromso in Norway, researchers showed that glucomannan had significant effects on weight reduction, for all of these reason just mentioned. During the study, it was proven that glucomannan increased body weight reduction when accompanied by a low caloric diet and exercise. Overall, eating small frequent meals that feature glucomannan will be the key to finally getting the body composition that you so desire without ever feeling hungry again. This dietary fiber is normally packaged in gel capsules to be taken orally. The glucomannan manufacturers claim that consumers should ingest 2 to 3 capsules (providing 2 grams of glucomannan fiber) 30 minutes before a meal so that the glucomannan can swell in the stomach and cause the stomach to feel full. This fullness is supposed to help curb your appetite and help you to eat less at your next meal. Despite these claims, glucomannan cannot work effectively when delivered in this form. The problem with taking glucomannan as a capsule is that the powder does not actually get released completely in order to expand in your stomach. Instead, gastric juices and acids break down the capsule walls slowly, and fluid from your stomach seeps in little by little. As the fluid comes into contact with the glucomannan, it causes the fiber to swell inside the capsule, which is still partially intact. Since the fiber forms a thick gel when mixed with water, the partially encapsulated fiber becomes a glucomannan "fiber worm." Now, this isn't a parasite, it's simply the result of the expansion of glucomannan within the capsule to form a long, thin, worm-shaped gel. So, instead of swelling in your stomach to make you feel full, the fiber swells inside the capsule and passes through your digestive tract without performing its designated job. ^ Back on top |
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