Increased Weight Loss with Controlled Portions
Increased Weight Loss Results Compared to Conventional Diets
Arizona Diet Products suwr is based upon the use of great tasting and convenient meal replacements. Meal replacements are scientifically shown to increase weight loss results when compared to conventional diets. This is because meal replacements are convenient, take all the guesswork out of eating correctly, and make consistency in eating the right amounts easier day in and day out. With Arizona Diet Products you have advanced nutritional products that make following the program easy.
Third Party Study: Weight Management Using Meal Replacements
OBJECTIVE: Although used by millions of overweight and obese consumers, there has not been a systematic assessment on the safety and effectiveness of a meal replacement strategy for weight management. The aim of this study was to review, by use of a meta- and pooling analysis, the existing literature on the safety and effectiveness of a meal replacement plan using one or two vitamin/mineral fortified meal replacements as well as regular foods for long-term weight management.
DESIGN: A plan was defined as a program that prescribes a low calorie diet whereby meals are replaced by commercially available, energy-reduced product(s) that are vitamin and mineral fortified, and includes at least one meal of regular foods. Randomized, controlled interventions of at least 3 months duration, with subjects 18 y of age or older and a BMI-Z 25 kg/m2, were evaluated. Studies with self-reported weight and height were excluded. Searches in Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Clinical Trials identified 30 potential studies for analysis. Of these, six met all of the inclusion criteria and used liquid meal replacement products (such as Arizona Diet Products shakes) with the associated plan. Overweight and obese subjects were randomized to the meal replacement plan or a conventional reduced calorie diet (RCD) plan. The prescribed calorie intake was the same for both groups. Authors of the six publications were contacted and asked to supply primary data for analysis. Primary data from the six studies were used for both meta- and pooling analyses.
RESULTS: Subjects prescribed either plans lost significant amounts of weight at both the 3-month and 1-year evaluation time points. All methods of analysis indicated a significantly greater weight loss in subjects receiving the meal replacement plan compared to the RCD group. Depending on the analysis and follow-up duration, the meal replacement group lost 7–8% body weight and the RCD group lost 3–7% body weight. Risk factors of disease associated with excess weight improved with weight loss in both groups at the two time points. The degree of improvement was also dependent on baseline risk factor levels. The dropout rate for meal replacement group and RCD groups was equivalent at 3 months and significantly less in the meal replacement group at 1 year.
CONCLUSION: This first systematic evaluation of randomized controlled trials utilizing meal replacement plans, such as Arizona Diet Products , for weight management suggests that these types of interventions can safely and effectively produce significant sustainable weight loss and improve weight-related risk factors of disease.
International Journal of Obesity 27, 537–549.
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