In my last video on onions, I talked about the data supporting or not supporting the role of onions

in boosting testosterone and men, protecting bone health, controlling allergies, and dealing

with chemo side effects.

What about weight loss?

Enter the effect of steamed onion consumption on body fat in overweight subjects.

The researchers used steamed onion so they can better disguise it against placebo and dried

it into an onion powder and gave people just a minuscule amount, about an eighth of a teaspoon a day.

Surely a little daily dusting of onion powder isn't going to affect the course of people's weight,

but check out these results.

Reporting the abstract, a significant reduction in body fat mass on both dexas scan and measured

by CT scan, a significant decrease in the areas of

whole fat, visceral fat, and subcutaneous fat.

Hold on.

If a little onion powder is so effective for weight loss, why wasn't it featured in my book

How Not to Diet?

Because as so often happens in studies, the spin in the abstract doesn't accurately represent

the actual data.

Here are the Dexas scan results.

No significant change of fat in the group that got the placebo capsules.

They only appeared to lose about a spoonful of fat.

Whereas the group unknowingly taking an eighth of a teaspoon of onion powder stuffed into

capsules,

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