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alexx
09-08-2008, 04:13 PM
I've been taking CLA from Vitamin Shoppe in USA. Can you recommend any good brands in UK i can get CLA from?
Hey Alexx,
What is CLA? And how does it help with weight loss?
Addy
alexx
09-09-2008, 12:05 PM
This is a supplement, which along a healthy diet and exercise, helps reduce body fat and build lean muscles.
That is one hell of a supplement!!
I thought supplements were just that ... a supplement to support your normal healthy diet. So tell me, without training how does CLA cut body fat and increase muscle?
Sounds like a whole heep of sales and marketing talk to me for a product that is highly unlikely to work all that well ... if at all.
Addy
alexx
09-10-2008, 03:34 PM
As i said earlier, its unlikely to work withouht regular exercise. It gives results as long you exercise and eat regularly healthy food (by regularly i mean 5 meals a day with 3 hours break more or less).
Tom@foresight
10-12-2008, 10:45 AM
CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) is a unsaturated fatty acid and is sold as a product to reduce fat storage and also increase fat burning. The theory goes that CLA stimulates a hormone sensitive lipase causing fat to be released from cells, and also suppresses lipo-protein lipase (the mechanism by which fat is transported to the cells).
There has been mixed research o this supplement, some support its use (in which case tends to be 2-5g per day, split over three doses) and some reject its claims.
As always with supplements it is down to your research and what you think as to if it will work, but bear in mind a great deal of the research into how effective certain supplements are, is funded by the supplement companies. So you need to consider how impartial it actually is.
Hope this helps you understand a little more about CLA.
TOM
Heart Ace
11-17-2008, 06:10 AM
Interesting... i just wanna know if its safe?