CLA study confirms ingredient's weight management potential
Overweight subjects who took 3.4 grams of CLA per day lost body fat in the first 12 months of the study, and were able to avoid regaining that fat in the second 12 months.
14/04/05 A 24 month study published in The Journal of Nutrition shows conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) maintains lean body mass (LBM) and reduced body fat mass (BFM) levels and so promotes healthy weight management. The study concludes that long-term supplementation with conjugated linoleic acid (Tonalin CLA) is safe and well tolerated. Furthermore, it confirms that taking CLA decreases BFM and maintains LBM and so also aids weight management, reducing the potential ‘yo yo’ effect often associated with diet plans.
Overweight subjects who took 3.4 grams of CLA per day lost body fat in the first 12 months of the study, and were able to avoid regaining that fat in the second 12 months. The results of the study corroborate and expand upon earlier findings, published last spring in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which revealed that CLA reduced body fat mass in overweight, but otherwise healthy, adults by as much as 9 percent. They also revealed that people with the highest body mass index (BMI) and body fat mass, especially women.were more likely to lose body fat than those with lower BFM.
Weight management is key, as research has shown that almost all dieters regain the weight they have lost within five years. This study shows that healthy, overweight participants taking a conjugated linoleic acid supplement (Tonalin CLA) for two years lost body fat and did not regain it. “CLA helped study participants keep off lost weight while maintaining lean body mass – which keeps the metabolism going strong and burning calories, thereby reducing the chances of weight regain,” said Dr. Jean-Michel Gaullier of Scandinavian Clinical Research in Kjeller, Norway, and project manager of the CLA study.
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