So I was legitimately trying to figure out the difference between a hemocytometer and a Coulter counter, and these FAT BURNING ads popped up.
This one seems really crazy:
http://www.trysensa.com/
The gist is you sprinkle "Sensa" crystals on your food that stimulate your brain's satiety centers so you eat less of everything you sprinkle it on. Hmmm. All of the ingredients are on the FDA's list of food additives generally considered as safe. So that's a relief.
This one actually makes some sense:
http://www.thedietsolutionprogram.com/BurnFatFri.aspx
I watched the whole video..mostly because I couldn't figure out how to stop it. The key points sound like the usual "eat these fat-burning foods and avoid these bad fat foods." But most of what they said made a lot of sense...no processed foods, no "bad fats" (trans, fake butter, canola oil [which didn't that dentist dude say not to eat?]) and sugar is your enemy, and foods you think are good for you like OJ and whole wheat bread turn into sugar in your body. This is a pretty simplified way of looking at it, but...yeah. There also seemed to be a glycemic index component - she showed a chart of blood sugar and insulin release, and called blood sugar between 60-90 the "fat burning zone" with anything below the "crabby shaky hungry zone" (I'm paraphrasing here, and may not have the numbers correct. That seems like something someone with an M.S. in nutrition should know.) and above that the insulin-release zone, which makes you store fat (sure, after a fashion). I don't know enough about this to evaluate it, but insulin spikes seem bad? (Again, I have an M.S. in nutrition?)
In short, I'd buy this if it weren't $97 and I didn't already know that I should eat exclusively whole foods and not pasta or cookies. But I like flour and sugar. It was just interesting to see what I think of as common sense being packaged and sold as a weight loss miracle for $97.
