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Along with good nutrition and weight loss, there are some additional strategies that you can use to speed up weight loss while keeping cravings at bay and allowing you to eat more of the foods you enjoy without guilt. One of these strategies involves the use of “fat binders,” which usually consist of supplements like chitosan fiber that help prevent fat from being absorbed from food during digestion by binding to fat molecules, making them too large to be absorbed into your system. Instead, they simply get flushed out as waste.

Fat-binding supplements also act as appetite suppressants, since the fiber they contain makes you feel full faster after eating. This in itself can help with portion control, discouraging overeating. Although suppressing appetite is not their primary purpose, they have been shown in some studies to actually be more effective than some other supplements specifically marketed for their ability to reduce appetite, like hoodia.

Whereas some appetite suppresants simply “trick” your brain into believing that you are full when you are not, which can lose effectiveness quickly, the fiber contained in fat blockers directly reduce hunger by satisfying cravings. Other sources of fiber can have the same effect, if not Read the rest of this entry »