CLA???

woodie

Cathlete
As I mentined in another thread I am trying to lose weight and I was wondering about using the supplement CLA? Any thoughts?

Thanks!
 
Hi Woodie,

Obviously not Cathe!!!!! But I was intriqued by your question about CLA. I had never heard of it before. So, I did alittle research and I found some interesting facts about the ingredients that make up CLA..........

www.wholesalesupplementstore.com/optimum-cla-1000.html

Ingredient Details:
Gelatin, Glycerin, Water, Natural Caramel Color, Titanium Dioxide.

www.chem-india.com/products-detail.html

TITANIUM DIOXIDE ("Titanic Anhydride: Titanic Acid Anhydride Titanic Oxide, Titanium White: Titania")
USES: White pigment in paints, paper, rubber, plastics etc, opacifying agents, cosmetics, radioactive decontamination of skin, floor coverings, glassware and ceramics, enamel frits, delustering synthetic fibres, printing inks, welding rods Single crystals are high temperatures are transducers.

GLYCERIN ("Glycerol; Glycyl Alcohol; 1,2,3-Propanetriol")
USES: Alkyd resins, dynamite, ester gums, pharmaceuticals, perfumery, plasticizer for regenerated cellulose, cosmetics, foodstuffs, conditioning tobacco, liquors, solvent, printer's ink rolls, polyurethane polyols, emulsifying agent, rubber stamp and copying inks, binder for cement and mixes, special soaps lubricant and softener, bacteriostat, penetrant, hydraulic fluid, humectant, fermentation nutrients and antifreeze mixtures.

I just makes you wonder!!! :)

Just be careful what you put into your body! Most bodybuilders work at a 97% rate of performance and then add the supplements for the last 3%.....so why do we always run for the 3% when we should be performing at the 97%? Please don't take offense to any of these......we just have to look out for eachother! :) :) :)

Marianne
 
I would agree with you, Marianne. I actually took CLA for a short period of time...I had difficulty finding much info about it and am always a bit afraid of...oh, say killing myself by accident :eek: . Anyhow, I found that the studies that have been done have been mostly on animals with no adverse effects at the time I did my research. There had been some very limited human tests done, also with no negative results and very "hopeful" expectations. I felt comfortable at the time to try it since I couldn't find any reports of "DANGER". My experience was that it seemed to help me more easily keep off the weight I was losing, but didn't seem to increase my rate of fat loss very dramatically. It's somewhat costly, so eventually, I just stopped taking it. Since then, I've seen an article in Prevention Magazine (not sure what month; year '03 or '04) that was very positive. But since no long term studies on humans have been done in a reliable setting, I just feel better not taking it.

Hope this was helpful!

Ginny
 

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