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The newest Magic Weight Loss Pill is a seaweed extract called fucoxanthin. Leave it to our friends at Life Extinction to perpetuate another fraud for money. They are pushing fucoxanthin ($44 a bottle and the amount is not stated) as the Miracle Weight Loss Secret of the Century! Go to www.pubmed.org, type in "fucoxanthin" and you'll come up with 136 citations. Every one of them is useless. The ONLY two that claim weight loss at all in mice came from Hokkaido University in Japan. Here they gave the poor little animals 0.1% fucoxanthin in their food. If a human ate, say, 2.2 pounds of food a day this would come out to exactly 1 gram of fucoxanthin. Well, that doesn't sound like much, does it? The problem is that dry seaweed only contains almost undetectable amounts of this carotenoid. Puritan's Disgrace sells 250 mcg (that's micrograms folks- MILLIONTHS of a gram) capsules. That means they are selling common seaweed for $16.50 an ounce, or more than $260 a pound! Go to any Asian store and you can buy all the seaweed you want for $10 a pound. You would have to take FOUR THOUSAND capsules a day to get enough fucoxanthin!!! This would cost you over $11,000 a year. Or you could just eat four kilograms (about 9 pounds cooked) of dried wakame, hijiki or lamanaria seaweed every day. Many Asian cultures eat seaweed as a staple. In one study the mice were given 0.2%, so you would have to take eight thousand capsules (over $22,000 a year) or eat eight kilograms of dried seaweed every day (18 pounds cooked).

In the Journal of Oleo Science (v 56, 2007) they also gave the mice the human equivalent of 14 grams of fish oil (for omega-3s). Flax oil would have worked even better. The real reason for the very slight weight loss was the total overdose of fish oil, not the fuco- xanthin. Do you feel like eating 14 capsules (a quarter bottle) of flax oil every day? Doesn't sound like a very good idea, does it? Flax oil is a wonderful supplement for people of all ages, but a one gram capsule every day is fine. In the other study in the Journal of Agricultural Food Science (v 55, 2007) they found a very slight weight loss with 0.1% fucoxanthin added to the mice food. Again, this is the human equivalent of 4,000 capsules a day.

Why do you think we don't sell weight loss supplements? Because there aren't any! They don't exist. If a real weight loss supplement existed. obesity would be obsolete, and everyone would be thin. You can smoke crack cocaine or ethamphetamine and lose weight. You could move to a Communist Paradise like Cuba or North Korea where no one (but party bosses) can afford enough food to eat. Those are guaranteed ways.

Diet and lifestyle are the only way to lose weight.

If you want to be slim and trim and eat all you want, simply MAKE BETTER FOOD CHOICES. You can't chow down on red meat, poultry, eggs, dairy, desserts, sugar, refined foods, and junk food and be skinny. Just make better food choices and exercise.






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Fucoxanthin Weight Loss Fraud -Roger Mason