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Atkins Accel Dietary Supplement, Capsules - 45 ea

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According to the newsletter of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, "Clinically shown? No way." They also say (Amazon probably won't like the truth here), "As it turns out, the level of calorie-burning ingredients in Accel was tested just once. In 1999, French researchers gave the polyphenolsplus-caffeine mixture, in the form of green tea extract capsules, to 10 healthly men in their 20s. (Amer. J. Clin. Nutr. 70: 1040, 1999) Each man took it for just one day, which eh spent in a small chamber that measured how many calories his body burned. On another occasion, each man spent the day in the chamber after taking a placebo capsule."

"On the day they got the green tea extract, eight of the 10 men burned more fat than they did on the placebo day. Yet only six of them burned more calories -- about 80 more over the course of the entire day.[!] For the other four men, the polyphenols plus caffeine didn't make any difference."

"The study lasted only 24 hours,[!] was never repeated, and the green tea extract was never tried in women. Preliminary? Certainly. Interesting? Perhaps. Clinically tested? True but meaningless. Clinically shown? No way."

Nutrition Action Healthletter, January/February 2005