CHITOSAN AT LEAST THREE TO ONE
While animal studies can be interesting, for real people to use Chitosan in their everyday lives we must put this in perspective. Chitosan, in the simplest terms, does the following:
For each gram of Chitosan you consume half an hour before a meal, at least 3 grams of saturated fat—and as many as 6—will pass through your body undigested.
For simplicity’s sake, let’s assume that 5 grams of saturated fats pass through the body unabsorbed for every 1 gram of Chitosan that you take. Suppose your dinner normally contains 40 grams of saturated fat (a dangerously high amount). If you take 5 grams of Chitosan before that dinner, the Chitosan can pull away 5 X 5, or 25 grams of that fat, leaving only 15 to be
absorbed by your body. The 25 grams of fat that are attached to the Chitosan pass through your body as if you had not consumed them in the first place.
How helpful is not digesting 25 grams of fat? Well, 25 grams of fat contain about 225 calories. If you cut your fat intake by 25 grams, and normally consume 2,000 calories per day, you’ll be lowering your calorie intake by 11 percent. And if you use Chitosan before two fatty meals a day, blocking the same amount of fat with each meal, the numbers can double—50 fewer grams of fat digested per day. That comes to 450 calories less, or 22 percent of your daily caloric intake. Not only have you reduced your caloric intake, you’ve also reduced the danger to your health represented by that excess fat.
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