Dr. Oz is a busy guy. He is tireless in his search for
new and innovative diets. His latest discovery, the raspberry ketone diet, is
generating a lot of buzz. Could those cute little berries really help with
weight loss?
Raspberries are delicious. A great balance of sweet and
tart that makes every bite a party. Now there may be a new reason to love them. Recent research studied mice that were fed a high fat diet, with half of the mice also receiving an extract of raspberries, a chemical building block called raspberry ketone. The mice receiving the
raspberry extract gained less weight than the mice that remained berry-free.
There have been no research studies conducted on people
to see if the raspberry extract has any effect on us. None the less, there is
an exploding industry producing and selling raspberry ketone (the extract)
pills. Now that Dr. Oz has provided a minute of fame for the supplement, who
knows how far this can go?
The theory is that the raspberry ketones increase your
body temperature and shift your metabolism toward anaerobic respiration. This
type of energy production burns fat cells inefficiently (a good thing) and
leads to weight loss. The same effect can be obtained by eating fresh
raspberries, but be ready to eat about 90 pounds of berries to reach the dosage
(100 mg) that is recommended by the supplement makers.
The supplement makers stress that the raspberry ketone
pills are natural. That is technically true, in that the contents are chemically
identical to components found in raspberries. Originally the supplements were
created by freeze drying raspberries and extracting the ketones from the frozen
powder. This works great in small quantities but is not practical for producing
commercial quantities of the supplement. The manufacturers now create their
pills in a chemical factory, far from berries of any kind. At least millions of
pounds of delicious raspberries are spared an early death.
Can the raspberry ketone diet help you lose weight? There
is no science backing up that claim. Will it hurt you? Probably not, unless you
are allergic to raspberries! People have been using raspberries for therapeutic
applications for hundreds of years, and there are no know side effects. It
won't replace your daily servings of fruits and vegetables that are so
important to good nutrition, either.
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