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BOSTON (UPI) - Starch
blockers that blitzed the
market promising weight
loss without dieting or
exercises, do nothing to
keep the flab off and may be
harmful, a study published

safety,” of the products, said
Dr. Irwin H. Rosenberg of
Chicago.

The researchers said the
blockers failed because the
pancreas probably secretes
many more times the

C7 - Sunday, December 5, 1982 - North Shore News

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the digestion and absorption
of starch calories in human
beings,” doctors said in the
New England Journal of
medicine.

An accompanying
editorial, however, said the
long-term effectiveness of
the starch
“ajthough “highly unlikely,”
has not been disproved by
the study, which focused on
the immediate effects of the

blockers,

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“What is clear, however,

is there are no clinical
studies that
effectiveness or indeed the

establish the.

The results were based on

a study of five people who
were fed precise amounts of
spaghetti, bread and butter.
One day the subjects took
three starch blockers with
their meal and another day
they took a placebo.

More than 200 million
starch blockers hit the
shelves of health food stores
and drug stores in a two-year
period and were taken at an

i -t—mitlion

tablets daily before the Food
and Drug Administration
ordered them off the market
in July, Rosenberg said.

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