02/25/2013
Our shake is a food (a meal replacement), and these have been well studied in literature. Several of our ingredients have been in clinical trials (Fibersol 2- fiber, Aminogen, etc). Please see the information below from our product team.
Meal Replacements – are food:
We work to address the key health challenges head on:
1. Proper nutrition –and cutting calories. Enough fiber, calcium, vitamins, minerals, protein to be a healthy meal, and help people feel better. Not everyone does this. Some companies may add fat, sodium, and sugar to improve the product taste. We don’t’ have to do this because of our quality ingredients. So we strive to offer balance.
2. Building and keeping lean muscle. When people lose weight, they can lose lean muscle. We don’t’ want that to happen. This is why we include the patented and clinically tested Aminogen to help the body better use the protein.
3. Good GI Health. The key to healthy detox, is a healthy GI system. This is why we include prebiotics, and fiber.
4. Taste – if it tastes good, people will use it.
5. Digestion – easy to digest and use proteins.
6. Diabetic friendly. The average person consumes 156 pounds of sugar per year, but only 3 pounds of broccoli and 28 pounds of lettuce. Just a few reasons why diabetes is on the increase. So we formulated to be diabetic friendly.
7. Lactose free. Gluten free. Soy processed to remove isoflavones. We want the products to be used by as many people as possible.
8. Affordable. Complete. If you look at our prices we try to be affordable. Then with our innovative patent-pending health flavors, we offer variety without making people buy multiple cannisters of shake mix. Plus we add more benefits. For example, the chocolate health flavor has polyhpenols equal to 8 bars of dark chocolate! So you get flavor, but also added nutrition and benefits. And fun. We try to make it fun to be healthy with these mix and match flavors.
As natural as can be, balancing science and benefits. Our meal plan promotes healthy carbs, and a healthy diet.
For those who don't believe in meal replacement shakes, there are several clinicals that show they work, and work better than other programs:
A Harvard study presented at the 2003 meeting of the North American Association for the study of obesity, showed that over a period of 10 years that people who had at least 2 shakes a day with a healthy 3rd meal were 32 .6 pounds lighter than the control group who followed the standard American way of eating.
Australian researchers writing in the Journal of Nutrition found that diet shakes, also called meal replacements, were just as effective for producing weight loss when compared with conventional, structured weight loss diets. However, study subjects using diet shakes were more positive about dieting in general, rating their eating plan more favorably for its convenience than those on the regular food diet. That may be just the motivation some people need to diet.
Research bears that out. In a Journal of the American Dietetic Association study published in 2001, women who lost weight on a reduced-calorie plan that included meal replacement beverages maintained their losses after a year by drinking at least one diet shake a day in place of a regular meal. Their counterparts in the study, who lost weight on a conventional low-fat diet that did not use meal replacement beverages, regained most of their initial weight.
A recent study by the New York Obesity Center at St. Luke's Hospital found that people who replace one or two meals a day with these shakes lose 7 to 8 percent of their body weight in a year, compared with just 3 percent for those who try to eat less food. But to keep the weight off after you quit the drinks, you'll have to give up that bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich and limit your breakfast and late-afternoon noshing to about 200 calories each.
Steven Heymsfield, M.D. of St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital compared and analyzed more than a half-dozen studies which compared meal replacement drinks with conventional low-calorie diets. He found that, on average, people who drink meal replacement shakes for one or two of their meals every day, will consistently lose 7%-8% of their body weight after the first year. This is very similar to the amount of weight loss achieved with medical weight loss drugs such as Xenical, however there are no dangerous side effects. He also found that people who followed low-calorie diets often lost only an average of 3% of their body weight.
The most impressive long term study to date was completed by George Blackburn, M.D., who is considered to be an expert of metabolism and nutrition at the Harvard medical school. This study lasted for 10 years and had some surprising results. After a decade, the men using the meal replacement shake has maintained a 7 pound weight loss. While this may not sound like a big deal, their counterparts gained an average of 25 pounds.
