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A recent article in the journal Obesity Facts discusses evidence that grape seed proanthocyanidins may have an anti-obesity effect by helping with fat loss. There has long been evidence that taking grape seed before a meal can reduce the absorption of sugar from your food, which can be helpful for diabetics and prediabetics. It would make sense that a healthy blood sugar would relate to fat loss and weight management.†
A study conducted in Spain looked at rats. Researchers began feeding cafeteria food to these rats, causing their blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides to increase, as well as their weight. They became addicted to the sugar found in the cafeteria food. If the researchers gave the rats high-dose grape seed extract, it affected their food intake. This occurred because the rats began to release something called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1).†
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GLP-1 is a hormone made out of amino acids. When you eat food, you release GLP-1, which lowers your blood sugar and helps contain your appetite. This, in turn, can lead to fat loss and overall weight loss. GLP-1 does not function properly in diabetics, so this is something many researchers are trying to target with medications. Grape seed extract helps with GLP-1 activity and helps contain your appetite.†
When you eat a carbohydrate, like beans, rice, pasta or cake, the sugars are released, but they’re not magically absorbed. They don’t just passively diffuse across the lining of the intestines or enter into your bloodstream through the liver. They have to be nipped and tucked. There are enzymes in your saliva and small intestines that do this. These enzymes are broken up into two families called alpha-glucosidase and alpha-amylase.†
Grape seed works to help block the absorption of sugar by attaching to these enzymes. Even though you can taste your food, you’re not absorbing the sugar from the food. This has been shown to help people who have prediabetes or diabetes. If they’re absorbing less sugar, it’s easier for them to control their blood sugar. This also assists with fat loss and maintaining a healthy weight. Green tea is also good for this, so if you add the two nutrients together, you can really block the absorption of a lot of sugar.†
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In this episode, Jerry Hickey, Ph. discusses whether there is a possibility that grape seed can help people lose some excess fat if you use it appropriately. He shares studies indicating that grape seed may help with fat loss, as well as blocking the absorption of sugars from food.†
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Diabesity is a modern epidemic. It indicates the coexistence of both diabetes and obesity due to poor physical activity and a poor diet.
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Chromium is a mineral that you need for the proper utilization of calories. You need it to properly store fats, carbohydrates, and protein and to metabolize them and change them into energy. It’s a very important mineral, but it’s a trace element, meaning you only need a small amount. You can get chromium in food. It’s found in whole grains, seafood, meat, and vegetables like broccoli and potatoes. You do get some in your diet, but if you lack it, you have a higher risk of developing diabetes.†
Benefits of Chromium
In human studies, chromium, along with biotin, improves blood sugar control in people with Type 2 diabetes. A very large population study indicated that those who did not consume enough of this mineral had a higher risk of diabetes, and those who consumed chromium supplements had a reduced risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, which is a current plague on humanity, there’s so many people with Type 2 diabetes.†
Research in humans shows that when you have sufficient chromium, it’s easier to keep fat off, get rid of fat, and retain muscle. These studies started in the 1990s. If you have enough and you’re dieting, you lose fat but you maintain your muscle mass. In fact, you can even gain additional muscle. A lot of people who diet actually lose muscle as well as fat, so this is an important point. If you lose muscle, you’re more likely to fall and hurt yourself and more likely to become frail.†
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A study published in the journal Current Therapeutic Research in 1996 looked at 154 people who were trying to lose fat. The researchers gave the subjects a nutritional drink with protein and carbohydrate over a 72-day period. The drink had either a placebo or either 200mcg or 400mcg of chromium added to it. They found that either strength, in conjunction with the protein drink, improved muscle and cut fat.†
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What type of chromium is best?
The form to use is chromium picolinate. A study from the Ohio State University Department of Nutrition looked at the pharmacokinetics of chromium. Pharmacokinetics refers to how something is absorbed, where it’s deposited in the body, how it’s excreted, when you get the highest blood level, and how long it lasts in the body. The researchers found that chloride was absorbed the least efficiently. Polynicotinate was right after it. Way ahead, absorbed three times better, was picolinate.†
If you’re getting a multivitamin, make sure it has some chromium, and make sure it’s chromium picolinate. That’s the one you absorb the best because chromium is very poorly absorbed.†
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