We all find it difficult to cut down on delicious foods filled with carbohydrates such as pasta, cakes, breads, potato chips and ice cream. With Carb Blockers you can stop the absorption of unwanted carb calories and prevent weight gain or just maintain weight.

How Does Carb Blocker Work?

During the digestive process, your body converts carbohydrates, found in starchy foods such as potatoes, bread and pasta, into sugar. Your body does this by breaking-down the carbohydrate molecule with alpha amylase, an enzyme that is produced in the pancreas.

These sugar calories are either burned off, through exercise, or stored as fat cells for future use. Unfortunately, inactivity means that these stored fat cells accumulate. The result is weight gain.

Carb Blockers, also known as starch blockers, are generally composed mainly of white kidney bean and wheat germ extracts, which is the active ingredient in carb blockers. They inhibit ("neutralizes") the digestive enzyme alpha amylase before it can convert starch into glucose and then to fat.
So the carbs (and unwanted carb calories) are prevented from being absorbed by the body; instead, they pass through the digestive tract and being eliminated.

Carbohydrates are the body's primary source of energy. Carbohydrates are converted to sugars (mainly glucose) which are then used to produce energy.
When you limit your carb intake, you will force your body to resort to burning fat for energy (fat is the secondary energy source).

Both types of blockers - carb and fat blockers - are supposed to be taken right before meals in order to effectively prevent the absorption of carbs or fat, and lead to weight loss. However, when simply trying to maintain weight, they can be taken only before high-carb or high-fat meals.

Many people keep carb blockers and fat blockers on hand and use them as needed to enjoy those "prohibited" foods that would otherwise undermine their efforts to lose weight, such as pizza and fast food.

Are Carb Blockers Safe?

Natural Carb Blockers are safe, with no known side effects.

Some people suffer from various minor side effects and discomforts such bloating, gas, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea after taking the carb blocker pills. However, carb blocker manufacturers consistently claim that these symptoms are actually indications that the starch blocker pills are working just fine.

Since some vitamins - such as A, D, E, F, and K - are fat soluble, the long-term use of fat blockers can lead to vitamin deficiencies. In addition, some "good fats" that are essential for overall health, such as omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, are also blocked in the process.

Do they really work?

By safely inhibiting an enzyme in the digestive tract, Carb Blockers prevent starchy foods from being broken down into glucose blood sugar. This slows the rate and amount of that would otherwise enter the bloodstream.

Most pills claim to inhibit between 30 and 45 grams of carbs from being absorbed.

More recent studies at the Mayo Clinic determined that much higher doses than those found in most commercial carb blockers - namely, 4,000 to 6,000 mg of bean extract and 4,000 mg of wheat germ extract - did slow carbohydrate digestion. In any case, the carb blockers that can be found on the market contain 500 mg of these extracts at most, which is not even close to the supposedly "effective" dosage.

You may find it useful - a list of some foods which are rich in carbohydrates and which you may want to avoid or limit your intake of:

Carbohydrate Rich Foods:
Apricot
Banana
Bagels
Beans
Blueberries
Bread
Dates
Figs
Milk
Muffins
Nuts, Cashews
Pasta
Rice
Yogurt

Healthy weight loss should be about healthy living, which includes enjoying all types of foods. The most important factors in healthy weight loss are eating the right types of foods and proper eating patterns.

But when healthy nutritious foods aren't available, the carb blocker is the best way to minimize the negative impact of carbohydrate rich foods.

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