Lose Those Pounds With African Mango

Lose Those Pounds With African Mango

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There are so many diet pills on the market but few of them use natural ingredients such as the African Mango. Most of the pharmaceutical diet pills work on increasing the amount of calories you burn or making you feel fuller. However, as shown in the past, man made products are often bad for your health or don't do as good of a job as those nature provided. This is true when it comes to the African Mango plant.

While you might read the labels on bottles to find the ingredients, you'll seldom find the words, "African Mango." That's because most food supplements containing this slimming plant use the Latin name, Irvingia gabonensis. The hype about the African mango isn't just anecdotal stories where one person lost 10 pounds in two weeks using the supplement. There is credible scientific study behind it.

Several studies on the African mango involve the role the plant plays in weight loss. None of these involves eating the fruit, which is similar to a mango, but rather consuming the seeds. The seeds have a very high fiber count as well as a high mucilage content. The mucilage, when the seeds are ground, makes them a good thickening agent but it also might be one of the reasons that the African mango is effective in lowering cholesterol, losing weight and controlling diabetes.

Oben, Ngondi, Momo, Agbor and Sobgui, researchers working at the University of YaoundéA small test group of 40 obese people ages 19 to 55 were used by Cameroon. Half of the group received an oat bran placebo and the other half received a supplement made from dika, the seeds of the African mango. The researchers kept the subjects on the same diet. However, those taking the supplement of African mango seeds showed a two and a half times more weight loss within the first two weeks. That same weight loss pattern continued throughout the length of the study.

The thick bulk that the African mango adds to the stomach contents slows down the digestion of the food. This keeps blood sugar levels from spiking, gives a longer lasting feeling of fullness and acts like other soluble fibers to help lower the bad cholesterol and increase the beneficial cholesterol.

Irvingia gabonensis seeds also contain an ingredient that makes the body's leptin more effective. Leptin is a hormone the body contains that tells you to quit eating; you're full. Fortunately obese people have the same amount of leptin in their body but unfortunately they also have a much higher level of C-reactive Protein(CRP) that attachés to the leptin and makes it useless. The African mango shows signs of lowering the CRP in the body, thus making the leptin available. This means that the person that previously didn't feel full now feels fuller sooner.

Our body is a system of checks and balances and without the proper nutrition, the system falls apart. Studies already prove that certain foods block the body's ability to feel full, therefore causing weight gain, so it makes sense that other foods can prevent that from occurring. While there are no long-term studies or large studies using the seeds of the African mango plant, the present research indicates that the substances it contains may help you lose weight and lower your bad cholesterol while raising the good cholesterol. For those that have insulin resistant diabetes, a supplement made of African mango seeds may provide an answer to weight loss problems as well as helping to control the insulin resistance.

About the Author:
Not all parts of the African Mango are good for weight loss although it's very tasty. If your looking to lose weight then you'll want to know about the dika nuts and extract which you can find on this page about theAfrican Mango.



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