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Dymatize Dyma-BURN Xtreme w/ EXP 200, 60 Capsules

February 14, 2012 By

Weight Loss Formula-Promote Energy to Help Burn Fat Naturally!

DYMA-BURN Xtreme is a highly advanced formula precisely engineered to amplify the burn in the fat-burning experience. This product contains Thermogenic properties that help you lose weight as part of a healthy diet and exercise plan. This cutting-edge formula was carefully developed to promote workout-powering energy. DYMA-BURN Xtreme is the perfect choice for serious athletes and fitness enthusiasts seeking to experience greater fat-burning potential.

Supplement Facts:

Serving Size: 2 Capsules
Servings Per Container: 30

Amount Per Serving

Ginger Root 75mg
L-Tyrosine 100mg
White Willow Bark 75mg
Ginseng 50mg
Bladderwrack 50mg
Cayenne 50mg
Chromium (as Polynicotinate) 40mcg 33%
L-Carnitine Tartrate 200mg
Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid) 17mg 170%
Yerba Mate Extract 4:1 130mg
EXP 200 (from herbal extracts) 200mcg
Guarana Extract & Caffeine 430mg

Proprietary Blends
EXP 200 (from herbal extracts)
Matrix of Salvia Sclarea Extract infused with Proprietary Catechins & Epigallocatechin Gallates (EGCG)
Guarana Extract & Caffeine
Caffeine Alkaloids (330mg from guarana extract and caffeine anhydrous)

Ingredients: Gelatin, Cellulose, Titanium Dioxide, Silicon Dioxide, Magnesium Stearate, Bioperine.

Directions: As an adult dietary supplement, take two capsules before breakfast or morning exercise session, and two more capsules at mid-afternoon. Initially, take half the recommended amount (one capsule 2 times daily) for the first 7 days to determine your tolerance. Do not exceed 4 capsules per day. For best results, use as part of a reduced fat diet and exercise program.

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FDA cracks down on illegal supplements

December 15, 2010 By

WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on manufacturers of certain weight loss, body building and sexual enhancement supplements that contain potentially dangerous ingredients.

The FDA said Wednesday that some manufacturers are deceptively labeling products to hide that they contain ingredients known to cause adverse health effects. Other supplements contain ingredients that should only be available by prescription.

“These tainted products can cause serious adverse effects, including strokes, organ failure, and death,” said FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg. “The manufacturers selling these tainted products are operating outside the law.”

Dietary supplements can slip through the regulatory cracks because, unlike drugs, they do not have to be approved by the FDA before they are marketed. Manufacturers are responsible for making sure their products are safe.

The FDA has pressured companies to recall nearly 200 inappropriately-formulated products since 2007, including 80 that were marketed as body building supplements, according to the agency. The recalled products were linked to reports of stroke, kidney failure, liver injury and death.

Government regulators do not have the power to force companies to recall products, and instead the FDA usually issues warning letters to draw attention to illegal products.

In a letter to the supplement industry, the agency said manufacturers who distribute tainted products could face criminal prosecution.

Executives from the supplement industry said they support the FDA crackdown and would share the letter with companies.

“The spiking of supplements with drugs is a crime, it endangers the public and undermines our members and other legitimate manufacturers and retailers of supplements,” said John Gay, executive director of theNatural Products Association, on a media call with FDA leadership.

The FDA said the agency is targeting weight loss products containing sibutramine, which has been withdrawn from the market for causing increased risk of heart attack and stroke. The agency said it has discovered “dozens of products” that contain the ingredient, including those marketed under the brand names Slimming Beauty, Solo Slim and Slim-30.

Body building products under scrutiny include those containing anabolic steroids or steroid analogs. The agency cited Tren Xtreme, ArimaDex, and Clomed as supplements that have been labeled to contain those products.

The agency also warned consumers to be wary of sexual enhancement products that include similar ingredients to the approved drugs Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra. Those ingredients should only be available by prescription. The FDA said products marketed under the names Vigor-25, Duro Extend Capsules for Men, and Magic Power Coffee have been determined to be in violation of federal law.

“Consumers should avoid products marketed as supplements that claim to have effects similar to prescription drugs,” said Michael Levy, director of labeling compliance for the agency. “Consumers should also be wary of products with labeling only in a foreign language or that are marketed through mass e-mails.”

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Weights plus walking equals more fit in less time

November 27, 2010 By

(Health.com) — Walkers who squeeze a bit of light weight training into their workout get more bang for their buck in terms of being fit and trim without increasing their total workout time, according to a new study of sedentary people with type 2 diabetes.

What’s more, those who mixed up their workouts showed the greatest improvement in blood sugar control after nine months, says Timothy S. Church, MD, Ph.D., of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who led the study.

“Our findings really support the 2008 federal physical activity guidelines, and our findings support those guidelines for everybody,” Church says.

These guidelines recommend people get at least 150 minutes of walking or 75 minutes of running a week, along with two or more days a week of resistance training.

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And that two days a week means a couple of 15- to 20-minute sessions on weight-training machines in the gym.

“It’s actually a pretty quick undertaking,” Church says.

Although exercise has long been recommended for people with diabetes because it can lower blood sugar almost as much as some medications, the best “prescription” for physical activity hasn’t been determined, Church and his colleagues write in the November 24 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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To find out, the researchers randomly assigned 262 sedentary men and women with type 2 diabetes to a control group that remained sedentary; an aerobic group that walked on a treadmill each week (equivalent to a brisk, 4 mph walk for 50 minutes 3 times a week); a resistance group that did three weight-training sessions per week (2 to 3 sets of 10 to 12 repetitions of 9 exercises); and a combo group that walked on the treadmill (42 minutes 3 times a week at 4 mph) and did two weight lifting sessions each week (1 set each of 9 exercises per session).

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The workouts were designed so that each would take about the same amount of time.

After nine months, the researchers estimated that the aerobic group worked out for an average of 140 minutes a week, the resistance group for 141 minutes, and the combination group for 140 to 150 minutes (110 minutes on the treadmill and 30 to 40 minutes lifting weights).

The key measurement Church and his team were looking at was hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), a blood test that looks at the percentage of red blood cells that have glucose “stuck” to them and is a good measure of how well a person’s blood sugar has been controlled over the past two or three months.

The average HbA1c for the group was 7.7 percent at the beginning of the study. (Most guidelines recommend people with type 2 diabetes shoot for an HbA1c level of 7 percent or less.)

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Although HbA1c didn’t change significantly for people who did aerobic training only or resistance training only, it fell by 0.34 percent in the combination exercise group.

People in this group were also the only ones who showed a significant increase in their maximum oxygen consumption (which measures the capacity for aerobic exercise) compared to the non-exercising control group.

Men and women in all the exercise groups trimmed their waists by 2 to 3 centimeters (0.8 to 1.2 inches). The weight lifters lost an average of 1.4 kilograms (3.1 pounds) of fat compared to the control group, while the combination exercisers lost 1.7 kilograms (3.7 pounds) of fat compared to their sedentary peers.

The reduction in HbA1c seen in the combination exercisers would translate to a 5 percent to 7 percent reduction in heart disease risk, according to Church and his colleagues.

It would also slash the risk of so-called microvascular complications, such as damage to the eyes, nerves, and kidneys, by 12 percent, the researchers say.

Although several studies have looked at exercise for diabetes, the current investigation is unique for its long duration, as well as the fact that it included an ethnically diverse group of patients, says Ronald J. Sigal, M.D., of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. African Americans made up 44 percent of study participants; nearly two-thirds were female.

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Sigal co-authored an editorial accompanying the new study, but wasn’t involved in the current research. In 2007, he and his colleagues published the DARE trial, which showed that resistance training plus aerobics was the most beneficial approach for people with diabetes.

“Unlike the DARE trial, they made a real effort to keep the total time involved the same” in the new study, Sigal says.

Resistance exercise likely increases the size of muscle fibers, while aerobic exercise boosts muscle’s efficiency in using glucose, which explains why combining the two has the strongest effect on blood sugar control, Sigal says.

“What’s the biggest consumer of blood sugar in the human body? Well, it’s muscle,” Church says. “If your body chews up more sugar, you’ve got less sugar in the blood and your diabetes is better. You’re kind of stimulating two different systems in the muscle.”

Sigal says the kind of resistance training people did in his study and Church’s study isn’t something you can accomplish at home with a few sets of dumbbells. (The study participants did their exercises under a trainer’s supervision at a gym.)

“It’s not realistic for most people to have the quality and variety of equipment at home that they could get at a gym,” he says.

Another benefit of going to the gym, he added, is that you can get help from trainers, who will push you to do more.

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Although trainers are great for some people, Church says, other people want nothing to do with them.

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned about exercise, it is such a personal thing,” he adds. “What’s the best type of aerobic exercise? The one that you’ll do.”

About 24 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, and 90 percent of those cases are type 2 diabetes, which is more likely to occur with aging, excess weight and a sedentary lifestyle.

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Eat more protein, fewer refined carbs to stay slim

November 26, 2010 By

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A team of European researchers confirms what many weight-loss gurus have claimed: eating more protein and fewer refined carbohydrates helps to keep the pounds off.

Among men and women who had lost at least eight percent of their body weight on a low-calorie diet, those who spent the next six months following a maintenance diet high in protein and low in refined carbs were the least likely to regain any weight, and were also the least likely to drop out of the study.

So is this something you can try at home? Maybe. Participants were divided into groups eating varying amounts of protein, a moderate amount of fat, and different quantities of carbs categorized as either high or low on the glycemic index, a measure of how fast a food is converted to sugar in the blood.

Whether the study results “translate into different dietary advice for more broad use probably still has to be discovered because glycemic index is really not an easy and straightforward tool to use for most people I would say,” Dr. Thomas Meinert Larsen of the University of Copenhagen, one of the study’s authors, told Reuters Health.

The glycemic index, GI for short, was originally developed for use by diabetics, and indicates how quickly blood glucose peaks after a person eats a particular food. High-GI foods, like white bread, produce a quick spike in blood glucose, while low GI foods, like whole grain breads, cause a slower increase in blood sugar that lasts for a longer period of time. Most food labels don’t list a food’s GI, nor is there adequate information on the GIs of different foods available on the Internet, according to Larsen.

In the new study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Larsen and his colleagues initially enrolled 773 men and women and their families in eight different western European countries. Families were randomly assigned to one of five different weight-maintenance diets for 26 weeks. None restricted calories, but four of the diets did dictate the proportion of proteins, fats and refined carbs that should make up daily food intake.

One group with no food restrictions served as a control, the rest were assigned to eat either a low-protein, low-GI diet; a low-protein, high-GI diet; high-protein and low-GI; or high-protein and high-GI. In the low-protein groups, people consumed 13 percent of calories as protein; in the high-protein groups, 25 percent of total energy consumed was protein. People in all of the groups could eat as much as they liked.

Seventy-one percent of the adults enrolled in the study completed it. While around 26 percent of people in the high-protein or low-GI groups dropped out of the study, 37 percent of people in the low-protein, high-GI group quit.

Among the 548 people who completed the study, only those who ate a low-protein, high-GI diet gained a significant amount of weight (1.67 kilograms, on average, or about 3.7 pounds). When the researchers looked separately at people in the high-protein diet groups, they found these individuals gained about a kilogram less than those in the low-protein groups; the same was true for the low-GI versus high-GI groups.

Larsen pointed out that people should use common sense in applying the low-glycemic principle. The hazelnut-chocolate spread Nutella actually has a lower GI than boiled carrots, he noted, although it obviously isn’t the healthier food; for this reason, he said, people should use the GI concept within food groups, for example choosing whole grain instead of white bread, or brown rice versus white.

While anyone can slash their calorie intake and lose weight short-term, the hard part is keeping it off, says Dr. David Ludwig, the director of the Optimal Weight for Life Program at Children’s Hospital Boston. The fact that people in the high-protein, low-GI diet were the most successful suggests that keeping weight off doesn’t have to be a matter of sheer willpower, added Ludwig, who co-authored an editorial accompanying the study.

“The nature of the diet and how that diet affects our underlying biology may have a lot to do with how likely we are to comply, to remain on the diet,” said Ludwig. People on the high-protein, low-GI diets “appear to like this way of eating more, perhaps because they were feeling less hungry and more energetic…or just noticing that they were doing better. There’s nothing that succeeds like success when it comes to weight loss.”

According to Ludwig, people can definitely try this at home. “Adding a serving of nuts and beans to the diet every day and cutting back on the refined grains will produce at least as much dietary change as they obtained in the study,” he said. “If everyone in America could cut back on two servings of refined grains and substitute that with one serving of nuts and one serving of beans, the impact on public health would really be potentially enormous, and that’s a change within everyone’s reach.”

SOURCE: http://link.reuters.com/jyr96q The New England Journal of Medicine, November 25, 2010.

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