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In an independent study at the University of Oregon School of Human Performance, a group of 27 women using UltraMeal and following a moderate exercise program were able to lose fat as they increased their lean muscle mass. At the end of the seven-week program, these women not only weighed less, they had improved body composition. Ultrameal Meal Replacement Program Ultrafiber Stevia (sugar substitute) Erythritol ( sugar with no insulin response) Ultra CLA Fenugreek plus Therminator UltraMeal was developed by the UltraBalance research team. For some time there has been concern about the yo-yo dieting habits of Americans and the damaging effects that type of dieting has on health. (Individuals who diet repeatedly tend to lose muscle and gain fat, leading to an unhealthy body composition.) The UltraMeal program should help you improve your body composition. Determine what your appropriate weight and body composition should be and how many calories you should consume each day as you work toward your goal. You can use UltraMeal to help you reach your goal in an enjoyable, satisfying, and, above all, healthy manner. TIPS AS YOU'RE STARTING OUT1. Don't skip a meal. The menus that follow were designed to nutritionally support your body as you lose fat and improve your body composition. If you skip a meal, you not only increase the likelihood that you will be excessively hungry later in the day (and thus apt to eat too much), but you will also deprive your body of some of the nutrients that ensure the success of the UltraMeal program. 2. Eat slowly. Take at least 20 minutes to eat a meal. It takes 20 minutes for your brain to send the "full" message to your stomach. If you hurry your meals, you can eat too much before you realize you are satisfied. Eating is a pleasant experience. Eating slowly helps you extend that pleasure as long as you can. 3. Establish an eating environment. If at all possible, eat all your meals and snacks in one place, while you are sitting down. 4. Reorganize your kitchen. Get rid of obvious high-fat foods, or put them in inconvenient, hard-to-reach places (in the back of the cupboard, on a high shelf, in the freezer). Plan activities that take you out of the kitchen. Don't use the kitchen table for paying bills, balancing your checkbook, or reviewing the kids' homework. Use the telephone in a room other than the kitchen. 5. Shop smart. Go grocery shopping before you begin the UltraMeal program. Look over the week's menus at the start of each week, and buy the foods you will need for the entire week. When you get home, immediately wash and cut up raw vegetables for salads and snacks. 6. Prepare for times of weakness. Recognize times or events that signal you to eat, such as an argument, a hard day at work, talking on the telephone, your favorite t.v. show. Plan nonfood-related activities for these times. Knit a sweater, groom your pet, take a long, hot bath and read a good book, cultivate your houseplants, walk the dog. (You obviously would not start knitting a sweater or read a good book during an argument, but it's a good idea to plan to have these activities for the "decompression" period following such events.) 7. Indulge yourself. As you retrain your eating habits with the help of UltraMeal, you can still pamper yourself in low-fat ways. Select the choicest fresh fruits and vegetables, prepare them with care, and use your best china or crystal when you eat them. 8. Be your own best friend. If your friend makes a mistake, your don't call him a failure or tell him to give up. If you stray from your new eating plan temporarily, don't give up on yourself. Treat each lapse as a temporary problem, not as a sign of failure. Simply resume your program and don't look back. 9. Drink plenty of water. Water is a natural diuretic that helps flush toxins from your body. It helps keep your appetite under control, and, in combination with the fiber content of the UltraMeal product, it assists with intestinal regularity. Mixing Instructions : Mix 2 scoops of UltraMeal with 8 ounces of pure cold water in a blender. Drop in 2 or 3 ice cubes for a thicker shake, and blend until smooth. THE ULTRAMEAL PROGRAMWith the UltraMeal program, you should be able to lose undesirable body fat each week. During the first week, you will drink an UltraMeal beverage three times a day, along with the listed foods. During the ensuing weeks, you will have UltraMeal twice a day (at breakfast and lunch) and a healthy, low-fat evening meal. Although the calorie count of the diet is low (between 1,000 and 1,200 calories a day), UltraMeal helps ensure you are getting sufficient high-quality nutrition to meet all of your body's basic needs. For most men and many active women, 1,000 calories a day may be too few to maintain their energy level as they lose weight. To meet the increased needs of these individuals, we have included a supplemental food lists at the end of the diet. In it you will find 100-, 150-, and 200-calorie foods from which to select to supplement the basic diet so you need not feel hungry, irritable, or weak. By monitoring the number of calories you consume, you can determine how many calories are necessary for you as an individual to lose weight. Do not try to lose weight too quickly. After the first week, you should be satisfied with losing approximately 1 pound a week. Remember, most of the weight you will be losing is unhealthy, unattractive fat; at the same time, you should be maintaining your lean muscle. Make sure you get adequate exercise. When you reduce your calorie intake, your body's metabolism has a tendency to slow down. The net result is that you require fewer calories, and you stop losing weight. The only effective way to maintain your metabolic rate is to continue to remain physically active. In the UltraMeal research study, UltraMeal dieters lost fat and maintained healthy muscle when they followed a diet similar to the one that follows and engaged in a program of about 30 minutes of brisk walking three times a week. We believe your long-term goal should be to stabilize your weight at a healthy level (which should be about 19-22 percent body fat for a young woman, 25 percent for an older woman, 15-18 percent for a young man, and 22 percent for an older man). "Going on a diet" implies "going off" again. Repeated dieting is not the way to achieve good health. Note from the doctor: This UltraMeal program is designed for rapid weight loss. After reaching your goal, follow the long term nutritional 40/30/30 plan for maintaining optimum shape and great overall health. You can continue to use UltraMeal until you have achieved your ideal body composition. Once you have reached this goal, UltraMeal can become a lifelong part of your diet as you design your own eating plan to maintain your lean body composition. Incorporated as one meal a day, for example, it can help ensure you are getting high-quality nutrition at a cost of little fat and few calories. This calorie saving can help you keep from regaining the weight you worked so hard to lose. We can keep you supplied with UltraMeal for use in a maintenance program. UltraFiber is a powdered fiber supplement designed to promote normal bowel function. It uses a high ratio of insoluble-to-soluble fibers carefully chosen for their low allergy potential, ability to promote satiety, and supportive role in the intestine. This supportive role includes alteration of intestinal microflora and increased supply of short-chain fatty acids for cells lining the large intestine. Taking a portion 20 minutes before eating fills part of your stomch with a low calorie health promoting, cholesterol lowering fiber that helps you eat less and still feel satisfied. ERYTHRITOL is a 4 carbon “sugar” that is about 70% as sweet as sucrose, but it looks and cooks like sucrose with no aftertaste and supplies only about 0.2 Calorie per gram! Essentially none! It has a pleasant cooling effect in the mouth and ranks a zero on the glycemic index. Presently a sensation in Japan, it is only just being introduced in the USA. Can not be used by harmful bacteria or yeast in the mouth or gut. Rated GRAS by the FDA, This is a top choice for diabetics and low-carb diets. THERMINATOR. A supplement that is thermogenic and helps your body burn fat for energy. After a week most people adapt to the excitatory effects. Not for people with high blood pressure, anxiety disorders or heart disease. With ephedra, guarana, white willow, and chromium. 100 capsules. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a fatty acid found primarily in beef and milk that has been shown to reduce body fat in both animals and humans. It also sensitizes the body to the effects of insulin, combating insulin resistance, which is a cause of premature aging. CLA also has definite protective effects against two of the most common causes of cancer(breast and prostate). CLA Reduces Body Fat A study at Louisiana State University confirmed that feeding male mice CLA-enriched diet (at 1% of the diet by weight, or 10 g/kg) for 6 weeks resulted in 43 to 88% lower body fat, especially in regard to abdominal fat. This occurred even if the mice were fed a high-fat diet. The effect was partly due to reduced calorie intake by CLA-supplemented mice, and partly to a shift in their metabolism, including a higher metabolic rate. In another study, performed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, mice supplemented with only 0.5% of CLA showed up to 60% lower ody fat and up to 14% increased lean body mass compared tocontrols. The researchers discovered that CLA-fed animals showed greater activity of enzymes involved in the delivery of fatty acids to the muscle cells and the utilization of fat for energy, while the enzymes facilitating fat deposition were inhibited. In July 1997, the results of the first human study on CLA were released by the Medstat Research Ltd. group of Lillesterom, Norway. This 3-month preliminary study involved 20 healthy volunteers. Half the group was given six 500-mg CLA capsules a day, and the other half received identical-looking placebo capsules. The subjects were asked not to alter their diet or lifestyle; 18 of the 20 subjects completed the study protocol. The results showed that the people in the CLA group experienced a 15 to 20% reduction of average body fat, compared with the placebo group. In the CLA group, the initial body fat percentage was 21.3% at the beginning of the study, and only 17% body fat after 3 months on CLA capsules. In contrast, the placebo group started with an average of 22% body fat, and 3 months later recorded an average of 22.4% body fat CLA Improves Insulin Sensitivity A study using diabetic Zucker rats indicates that part of CLA's effectiveness in preventing obesity may lie in its ability to act as a potent insulin sensitizer, thus lowering insulin resistance and consequently insulin levels. Since elevated insulin is the chief pro-obesity agent, it is enormously important to keep insulin within the normal range. By activating certain enzymes and enhancing glucose transport into the cells, CLA acts to lower blood sugar levels and normalize insulin levels. Thus, besides being antiatherogenic and anti-carcinogenic, CLA is also antidiabetogenic: it helps prevent adult-onset diabetes, characterized by insulin resistance. If the current animal results are corroborated, CLA may prove to be important not only in the prevention of diabetes, but also as a new therapy for adult-onset diabetics, aimed at lowering insulin resistance. CLA as an anti-cancer agent CLA received widespread media attention in the early 1990s when it was identified as a component of red meat that helps prevent cancer. Further research showed that CLA is a potent anticancer agent, an anticatabolic agent and, through a unique mechanism, a fat metabolizing agent. CLA is one of the substances the FDA is investigating for disease prevention. New studies are appearing about the ability of CLA to prevent cancer, and possibly function as an adjuvant (assisting) cancer therapy. CLA appears to be especially effective in preventing breast cancer. Using CLA to reduce body fat may reduce your risk of getting cancer. Compare this to FDA-approved diet drugs that were removed from the market after being linked to heart-valve degeneration. A deficiency of CLA in our diet may be a major factor in causing Americans to gain so many fat pounds. CLA is a potent antioxidant, but appears to prevent cancer via other mechanisms of action. A dose of three 1000-mg capsules of 70% CLA, taken in the morning on an empty stomach, may be an effective part of an overall weight-loss program. The studies indicate that it usually takes about 3 weeks before body fat loss occurs in response to CLA supplementation. CLA is essential for the transport of dietary fat into cells, where it is used to build muscle and produce energy. Fat that is not used for anabolic energy production is converted into newly stored fat cells. There are published research findings about how dietary CLA reduces body fat, but first let's take a look at why many Americans are now deficient in CLA compared with their parents. The primary dietary sources of CLA are beef and milk, and Americans are eating less beef and drinking less whole milk in order to reduce their dietary intake of saturated fat. People often drink nonfat milk, but it's the fat content of the milk that contains CLA. Since skim milk contains virtually no CLA, those seeking to lose weight, those who use skim milk, are depriving themselves of a potential source of this fat-reducing nutrient. Now, here's where the real problem occurs. In 1963, the CLA percentage in milk was as high as 2.81%. By 1992, the percentage of CLA in dairy products seldom exceeded 1%. The reason for the sharp reduction in milk CLA was because of changing feeding patterns. Cows that eat natural grass produce lots of CLA. Today's "efficient" feeding methods rely far less on natural grass. For example, grass-fed Australian cows have 3 to 4 times as much CLA in their meat as do American cows. Researchers reported in June of 1999 in Biosciences, Biotechnology, Biochemistry Journal that animal studies demonstrated that "CLA has an obesity-preventing action." Another study reported that CLA effects on glucose tolerance and glucose homeostasis indicate that dietary CLA may prove to be an important therapy for the prevention and treatment of obesity (Biochem.Biophys. Res. Commun., 1998 [March]). So health-conscious Americans are avoiding beef and whole milk because these foods are high in fat, and, when people do consume beef or milk, they are consuming very little CLA because of CLA-deficiency in today's cows. Thus, most Americans have inadequate amounts of CLA in their diet, and this CA deficit may be at least partially responsible for the epidemic of overweight people of all ages that now exists. Encouraging Results with CLA How significant is CLA in preventing excess accumulation of body fat? The results to date are preliminary, but extremely encouraging. Athletes are taking CLA to push glucose into their muscle cells and connective tissues instead of letting it turn into fat. CLA has been shown to reduce protein degradation in both humans and animals. CLA is required to maintain optimal function of the phospholipid membranes of cells. Healthy cell membranes will allow fat, protein, and carbohydrates to flow into active cells such as muscle, connective tissue, and organ cells, instead of being stored passively in fat cells. A deficiency of CLA can inhibit fat from entering muscle cells, which can result in excessive accumulation of body fat. CLA has been studied in different species of animals, and the results consistently show that CLA reduces the percentage of body fat. An abstract from the 1996 Environmental Biology Conference showed that rats, after 28 days of being supplemented with CLA, showed a 58% reduction in body fat, compared with the control animals which did not receive CLA. In addition, the percentage of muscle was greater in the CLA group; CLA did not induce weight loss, since muscle weighs more than fat. CLA inhibits fat storage by enhancing the ability of cell membranes (other than fat cells) to open up and allow the absorption of fats and other nutrients. CLA promotes the growth of muscles by letting nutrients into active muscle cells. That's why CLA has become such a popular supplement among body builders. The fat-reducing mechanism of CLA involves the rejuvenation of cell membranes in the muscles and connective tissues to allow fats to enter freely in order to generate energy and growth. This anabolic effect could provide anti-aging benefits in the elderly, but there have been no studies to date to investigate this. Recent Findings on CLA Several years ago, the discovery of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) caused a scientific sensation. Here was a fatty acid found in red meat and cheese that showed strong anticancer properties, being particularly effective in inhibiting breast and prostate tumors, as well as colorectal, stomach, and skin cancer, including melanoma. On the whole, scientists found CLA to be more strongly anticarcinogenic than other fatty acids. What made CLA especially unique is that even low concentrations significantly inhibited cancer cell growth. CLA supplementation was also shown to improve the ratio of lean mass to body fat, decreasing fat deposition, especially on the abdomen, and enhancing muscle growth. One way in which CLA reduces body fat is to enhance insulin sensitivity so that fatty acids and glucose can pass through muscle cell membranes and away from fat tissue. This results in an improved muscle-to-fat ratio. CLA was also shown to have antioxidant properties and to prevent muscle wasting (an anticatabolic effect). It became popular with muscle builders because of its ability to improve the transport of glucose, fatty acids, and protein to the muscle tissue. It is interesting that while it is chemically related to linolenic acid conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) appears to have opposite effects in certain important areas. For instance, linolenic acid stimulates fat formation (lipogenesis) in adipose tissue, while CLA inhibits fat formation; linolenic acid tends to promote tumor growth, while CLA is an excellent inhibitor of tumor growth; linolenic acid makes cholesterol more susceptible to oxidation, while CLA makes cholesterol more stable. One of the greatest problems with the Western diet during the last 50 years has been excessive consumption of linoleic acid, due to the introduction of margarine, seed oils, such as corn oil and safflower oil, nd the modern artificial livestock feeding methods that have raised the linoleic-acid content of meat. At the same time, the consumption of beneficial fatty acids such as omega-3 fats (fish, flax,) and CLA has gone down. Because of the enormous impact that fatty acids have on our physiology, an excess of linoleic acid combined with a deficiency of CLA could have far-reaching effects on health and longevity. Let us now take a closer look at the current research findings about CLA. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. |