CLINICAL TRIALS PROVE THE EFFICACY OF TURBO DIETA®

Since the beginning of the 80’s, an increase in the number of overweight patients can be observed, which by now reached epidemic levels in the developed world, with all its sociological and personal consequences and increases in the number of cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Statistics show similar tendencies in Hungary too, with more than half of the over 15 population being overweight and one in five obese.

The measure of obesity
In judging obesity or overweight an important indicator is BMI (Body Mass Index). This is your body weight in Kgs divided by your body height in cms squared, its measurement unit is kg/m2.

Overweight means a value of 25-30, while obesity means a value over 30.

Another very important indicator is your waist and the quotient of your waist and you hip size. With men, a waist of over 94 cm and with women a waist of 84 cm and a quotient of 0.95 and 0.8 respectively may mean a higher risk of cardiac and circulatory disease.

Obesity is usually caused by a combination of negative factors, it is a so called multi-factorial disease. Although patients like to cite it as a reason, it is in fact quite unusual that a single hormonal disorder should cause so called secondary obesity.

Nearly all our organs are affected by obesity
Cardiovascular-, stomach and intestinal- respiratory- musculoskeletal and central nervous problems are frequent. The risk of metabolic diseases also increases.

In the treatment of obesity, independent of the causes, the diet is very important, especially a high protein, low carbohydrate diet, exercise therapy and behavioural therapy. In special cases, medication or surgical treatment may be required. The former however offers limited possibilities with long-term results that are not convincing and with new products commonly withdrawn due to their life-threatening side effects.

 It’s good to know that in terms of metabolism and risk factors a 10% weight-loss has substantial beneficial effects.

The trial
In our trial the Turbo dieta^® enzyme protein powder by Idealbody Ltd. was used for two weeks as a replacement for 3 daily meals. During this time only the consumption of various flavoured shake powders dissolved in 300ml of 1.5% milk was allowed, with plenty of fluids (min 3L), vegetable soup or Acid-Base or Antioxidant tablets.

Dosage was calculated based on body height, as instructed.
The trial involved 32 patients between 28-67 years, of which 26 were women and 6 were men with an average age of 42.

Initial body weight ranged from 63.5 to 130.6 kgs.

Average weigh-loss as a result of the diet: was around 4 kgs, with a maximum loss of 7.2 kgs (fig.4) Figure 1 shows the distributions of weight-loss, while figure 2 the same in percentage proportion to the initial value. Figure 3 shows the distribution of average weight-loss according to body weight.

Summarising the results of the two-week program using Turbo dieta® powders, it triggered weight-loss, gave patients a sense of success, making it possible to introduce the easy version of the diet and thereby to start a long-term diet program.

Jozsef Hantos Dr.
Project Leader

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