Welcome to the Get Fit guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

With a little bit more focus on the slimming down in today's episode.

From green tea to bitter orange and hootia to heartleaf,

herbal formulations and over-the-counter weight loss supplements are constantly being featured

in advertisements online and on TV and radio and also at your local gym, grocery store, and pharmacy.

So do these calorie-burning cocktails actually work, or are they a waste of your money?

In this episode, you'll find out what the research has to say about weight loss supplements and

fat burning pills, and you'll also learn how to maximize fat loss with the way that you eat.

So what are weight loss supplements?

As you'll learn later in this episode, some real foods can be considered weight loss supplements,

but for the purpose of this discussion, a weight loss supplement will be defined as any

pill, capsule, or tablet that includes herbal or chemical

ingredients formulated specifically for the purpose of increasing your metabolism, allowing you to

burn more calories, or decreasing your appetite, helping you to take in fewer calories.

In the scientific literature, weight loss supplements are commonly referred to as thermogenic

AIDS. Now, there have been many studies performed on

weight loss supplements, although most of them were funded by the weight loss supplement industry.

But the basic premise of all the studies is fairly consistent. Give a group of people a weight

loss supplement, then measure the change in their resting energy expenditure, or the calories

they burn while sitting or lying down.

The good studies go a step further and also measure the change in exercise energy expenditure

or calories burn during physical activity.

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