Saturday, June 29, 2013

LOWERING BODY FAT


Greetings once again to my blog on resveratrol.  Here I review articles published in medical journals on current research into the effects and benefits of resveratrol.

The article for this blog is on Lowering Body Fat, from the Institute of Carlos III in Vitoria, Spain.  There they fed rats a diet designed to promote obesity.  Half the rats were also fed resveratrol and the other rats not for six weeks.  Several chemical changes involved in loss of body fat were measured in muscle tissue and fat tissue.  The resveratrol group had higher levels of chemicals that increase thermogenesis.  This is the production of heat from muscle and fat cells and is involved in fat loss and thus weight loss.  This may be part of the mechanism explaining why rats on high fat diets lose body fat through thermogenesis.  Regardless of the reason, rats on high fat diet and Resveratrol lose weight.
Resveratrol may be something to consider adding to your diet if you are on a weight loss or weight management program.  

Dr. Bob 

Food Chem, 2013 Nov 15  pp 1530

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