Blood Sugar Solution Challenge, Day 21: Rough it Up for Weight Loss

The Japanese have been eating a powerful weight loss food for centuries. So did our ancient ancestors who got ten times more of this critical substance than modern Americans. Watch this video to find out what it is and how to add it to your diet.

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Comments

[sabelmouse]

02:20 PM on 03/20/2012

i doubt the japanese were trying to lose weight, or anyone else until recently. people were to concerned with getting ENOUGH food for most of our history.

[JohnK26]

01:33 AM on 03/20/2012

I can recall this being around a number of years ago. Here is a site that looks at the effects of this supplement. (His cognac==konjac.)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2657159/ Study about PGX.

[mkdewboohoohoo]

11:35 PM on 03/19/2012

It is a fibrous root vegetable according to the video for those of you who could not get it to run. I've never heard of it, but the name as he pronounces it in the video sounds like "cognac". I listened to it 3 times and thats what the word sounded like to me. He says it is sold by nutritionists or nutritionists doctors under the name PGX or polyglycoplex.

[Luketalks]

02:44 AM on 03/20/2012

The root he is talking about is "konjac". I found a link on another site talking about it briefly.

http://www.livestrong.com/konjac-root/

[llisa]

11:22 PM on 03/19/2012

Nope. Either write it or stop posting this stuff.

[ADVOCATE4ZPG]

10:01 PM on 03/19/2012

Is the "secret" rice instead of gluten-rich flour-derived, baked products....? Is it soy sauce? Is it NORI? Is it smoked fish? Is it green tea?

Watching a promotional video to get a simple answer is a bore and tease simultaneously.....

[cardiaccare]

09:52 PM on 03/19/2012

I concur. How about some words?

[Mullet Reeve]

09:29 PM on 03/19/2012

I agree, it's effing annoying to have to watch these videos and try and take notes when so much of it could be summarized and repeated in the text next to the vid. Especially when the vid is slow and skipping. Or when it's the same information he's already stated in another vid, and he's just repeating so he can add up to 30 days.

Great message, just could improve these things.

[sabelmouse]

02:21 PM on 03/20/2012

if it's vimeo there's rarely a point to even trying.

[zuzuzpetals]

05:16 PM on 03/19/2012

Dr Hyman--Just to tell you, it's really annoying to not be told in text the gist of a video. This video is not loading, for whatever reason, or is loading v-e-r-y slowly. In any event, I can't see it and probably others are having this problem.

[Sevilleaba]

09:04 PM on 03/19/2012

Ditto

[Mike Armstrong]

04:46 PM on 03/19/2012

What video?