Wicked Caramel Popcorn

appetite control

 

Introduction

Snacking has always gotten a bad rap, but in recent years it’s improved its reputation with both dieticians and doctors touting benefits of healthy snacks as part of a balanced diet. 86% of healthy snackers say they snack to help lose and maintain their weight, with the top factors in choosing a healthy snack being taste by 66% and low in sugar by 37%. The BalaFive Cheat Smart line brings you the best in taste while also being sugar free.

BalaFive’s Wicked Caramel Popcorn tastes great and is made with botanicals clinically proven to substantially reduce body weight, body fat, and waist size. They contribute to weight management by improving the function of several key hormones that control appetite, satiety, fat burning, insulin sensitivity, and the conversion of sugar into fat.

Ingredients

Saffron Extract

Saffron Extract from the saffron flower acts via the reuptake inhibition of dopamine, glutamate, norepinephrine and serotonin. It improves memory, inhibits neuronal degeneration, has anti-oxidative properties and reduces signs of depression. Safranal, one of the main components in Saffron Extract increases serotonin concentration in the synapses, which correspondingly increases the propagation signals that influence satiety and mood. Serotonin deficiency has been linked to stress-induced carbohydrate cravings and emotional snacking.

L-Theanine

L-Theanine is a unique amino acid found almost exclusively in green tea that exerts beneficial effects on brain metabolism. L-Theanine enhances both dopamine and serotonin production which improves mood, increases satiety and alpha brain activity thus enhancing mental performances while maintaining a calm and relaxed state.

Welltrim® IG

WELLTRIM® IG is a standardized extract of the seeds of African mango, Irvingia gabonensis. It contributes to weight management by improving the function of several key hormones that control appetite, satiety, fat burning, insulin sensitivity, and the conversion of sugar into fat. WellTrim® IG also helps increase metabolic rate. The results are a reduction in percent of body fat, waist size, and hip size.

 

Clinical Indications

Saffron Extract

Crocin is the main chemical compound identified in saffron, whose scientific name is Crocus sativus. It has been used over the years in folk medicine as an antispasmodic, gingival sedative, nerve sedative, carminative, and expectorant stimulant. * It has been reported that saffron active constituents have anticonvulsant, antidepressant, anti-inflammatory effects, and also improve learning and memory.* Crocin is the actual active component involved in both the improvement of learning and memory and preventing effects of long term potentiation blocked by ethanol* and its potential in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases like AD.* In animal models, the effectiveness of crocin has been shown in antagonizing the cognitive deficits caused by neurotoxic agents like streptozocin.* Crocin improved cognition as evaluated by means of ADAS-Cog and CDR-SB in subjects with mild to moderate AD.* In a recent in vivo study, it has been demonstrated that crocin significantly modulates the levels of oxidative markers in the hippocampus, abolishing the deleterious effects of chronic stress on learning and memory.*

L-Theanine

L-Theanine is shown to have significant beneficial effects on anxiety, mood, and concentration. Individuals taking supplemental L-Theanine show improvements in mental and emotional health.
In one key study, students with high school levels of anxiety manifested the classical signs including tachycardia, impaired concentration, and slower reaction time. One group of students administered L-Theanine were found to have slower heart rates, improved attention and reaction times compared to a control group of anxious students that were administered a placebo. L-Theanine also did not have the side effects of drowsiness, slowed reflexes or diminished concentration common among anti-anxiety prescribed medication.*
An additional study assessing the effect of L-Theanine on cognitive tasks, reported that the administration of L-Theanine resulted in a significantly improved general state of mental alertness, due to the increase in alpha wave levels.*

Welltrim® IG

A double-blind, placebo-controlled human study of overweight and obese subjects concluded with those taking WellTrim® IG enjoying a reduction in body weight, body fat, waist size, fasting blood sugar, and leptin (a hormone produced by fat cells that increases appetite and weight), and an increase in adiponectin (a hormone produced by fat cells that helps reduce insulin sensitivity and weight). (CR)

 

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