Fat Burning Pills
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Is there really a pill that can help you burn fat? Sticking to a good diet and exercising to lose weight takes hard work and discipline, so what if there was something you could take that could do some of that work for you?
Listener June got in touch wanting to know if this is the case, or if it’s too good to be true? Are there really pills being sold online and on the high street that can help you burn fat, or speed up your metabolism?
Greg Foot investigates, hearing from some people who’ve tried them, scientists and dieticians about what exactly is in these pills, and asking if there is any evidence to back up their claims that they can burn fat.
This series, we’re testing your suggested wonder-products. If you’ve seen an ad, trend or fad and wonder if there's any evidence to back up a claim drop us an email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or you can send us a voice note to our new WhatsApp number: 07543 306807
PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Kate Holdsworth
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder. |
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| 0:28.1 | To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires.org slash fringe. |
| 0:34.5 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that cuts through the advertising hype |
| 0:44.8 | to find out whether the bold claims being made by promising sounding products stand up to scrutiny. |
| 0:51.2 | Are these wonder products the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS? |
| 0:56.8 | If you have seen something you'd like me to investigate, send it over. You can email us on |
| 1:01.6 | Slice.bred at bbc.co.uk or send us a message on WhatsApp to 07543 306807. This week's suggestion comes from June Kennelly in Birmingham. |
| 1:17.3 | Hi there, June. |
| 1:18.6 | Hi. Thanks for getting in touch. What was the product that you've seen that you'd like me to investigate? |
| 1:25.3 | It's what's called fat burning or fat dissolving pills. I seem to |
| 1:29.3 | be inundated with adverts online and to me it just comes under the too good to be true category |
| 1:35.7 | and I suspect that it's all a big con. Right. Well, I will find out. You say you've been bombarded |
| 1:43.5 | with them online. |
| 1:44.7 | Do you think you were once searching for something like this |
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