Weight Loss Research on Tonalin CLA
June 19, 2009 by Jane Moore
Filed under Weight Loss
Tonalin CLA supplements are getting some positive reviews these days from a number of reputable sources. I struggle with an extra 10 or 15 pounds and I need some sort of outside help to get me on the right track. In the event that CLA doesn’t work for me then I have lost nothing because there are no known side effects and the cost of a one or two month supply is fairly minimal. It’s enough to get me interested in trying them for a month or two.
I am suitably impressed with what I have read so far on CLA. The two most compelling research reports have come from two well known universities in North America. One university is American and is located in the heartland of Wisconsin. The other university is the University of Guelph and it is located in Ontario. Both of these professionally designed, managed and controlled studies claim that Tonalin CLA can really help overweight people lose weight and maintain their weight loss regimes after they stop dieting.
The Canadian scientific study was conducted first. It was an eight week study and used 60 individual over weight adult people as subjects in the study. Thirty people took a CLA pill everyday while the other thirty people took a placebo pill. The study was conducted in November and December and was particularly interested in monitoring the weight gain or loss if any over the Christmas holidays. The result was astounding. The CLA group lost weight in the weeks leading up to the holidays and didn’t gain any weight over the holidays. The placebo group gained a bit of weight leading up to the holidays and then gained weight even more rapidly over the holidays.
A short number of years later, a group of researchers from the University of Wisconsin tried to repeat the Canadian study. In this study they used forty overweight adults and they studied them for 24 weeks. This study was able to obtain the same results. Also in the American study the group taking the CLA supplement also claimed to have lost fat from their belly region. The medical community at large was very pleased with this result as belly fat can lead to heart disease which is a serious threat to the health of many Americans.
By controlling for diet and exercise, the research teams could make certain that it was the CLA pill that was the catalyst for any weight changes. All of the subjects were carefully monitored. Both the American and Canadian research teams made sure that that all of the participating subjects consumed approximately the same amount of calories per day. Furthermore, all of the subjects had the same amount of daily exercise.
The fact that these two studies were performed by professionals at respectable North American Universities makes me think that the studies are solid. I have nothing to lose by trying this natural supplement. I am going to try Tonalin CLA and continue with my regular exercise and diet.






