Everything wrong with BoomBod

Ah. Another product on the market aimed at insecure and vulnerable women to help them lose 90% of their bodyweight within 7 days. Sounds fun doesn’t it?

What actually is in this magical ‘weight loss shot’ then? Well, the active ingredient is a water-soluble dietary fibre known as glucomannan. Ah! So this must work by increasing your bodys caloric expenditure? Or making all the food we consume diffuse directly out of our bodies? Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) not. Fibre can help aid weight loss, however ONLY because it increases satiety and is usually high in volume comparitive to calorie content, therefore individuals feel more satiated, eat less and thus there we have it, a CALORIC DEFICIT. Further to this, a meta-analysis of all the clinical trials investigating supplementation of glucomannan has concluded that there has been no statistically signifiant weight loss shown when using the supplementation of glucomannan. When glucomannan is supplemented alongside a hypocaloric diet, YES, weight loss is achieved, however that is NOT due to the glucomannan directly, but infact a CALORIC DEFICIT.

‘Yeah, but i’ve seen people report weight loss within 7 days whilst still eating the same!’. Yes, you see that is the magic of water-soluble fibre! It absorbs water within your intestines ‘bulking’ up your stool and hence why it is also used to treat constipation; it…