Eat Carbs, Lose Weight With Starch Blocker
Diet Aims To Block Starches, Carbohydrates Using Pills
UPDATED: 9:46 am EDT July 21, 2003
BALTIMORE -- What if you were told that you could eat all the comfort foods you love, lose weight and keep it off?
Sound too good to be true? Maybe. But there's a new diet that claims to do just that.Many people love to eat sandwiches, pasta and fried foods. But eating those foods and losing weight just don't add up.That's where the Starch-Blocker Diet, a new book by Dr. Steven Rosenblatt and medical writer Cameron Stauth, comes in.Rosenblatt explained that people can block starches by using a supplement called Phase 2."It's an extract from white kidney beans, a natural extract that stops the digestive enzyme for starch," Rosenblatt said.By blocking the action of the enzyme, Rosenblatt said you're able to do away with starch calories.
"In the clinical trials, we found that people were not only able to lose weight, they were able to lose inches," said Rosenblatt (pictured, left).But if all we had to do was take a pill to lose weight, we would all be thin. There's still work involved in this diet."One of the things we like is exercise. So I'm not saying taking a starch blocker makes you lose weight. It's a tremendous help to fight this epidemic of obesity in this county," Rosenblatt said.The Starch-Blocker Diet goes beyond the supplements. It also promotes a three-step strategy for long-term weight management. They include:
Eat Carbs With Starch-Blocker Diet"In the clinical trials, we found that people were not only able to lose weight, they were able to lose inches," said Rosenblatt (pictured, left).But if all we had to do was take a pill to lose weight, we would all be thin. There's still work involved in this diet."One of the things we like is exercise. So I'm not saying taking a starch blocker makes you lose weight. It's a tremendous help to fight this epidemic of obesity in this county," Rosenblatt said.The Starch-Blocker Diet goes beyond the supplements. It also promotes a three-step strategy for long-term weight management. They include:- Redistribute calories -- which doesn't mean restricting them to starchy foods
- Take emotional control over food, which obliterates cravings and mood swings
- Exercise
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