HYDROXYCITRATE.Hydroxycitrate (HCA HCA, n.pr See acid, hydroxycitric. ) is one of the most common ingredients in weight-loss dietary supplements Noun 1. dietary supplement - something added to complete a diet or to make up for a dietary deficiency diet - a prescribed selection of foods vitamin pill - a pill containing one or more vitamins; taken as a dietary supplement , even though the best study of HCA found that it worked no better than a placebo (July/August 1999, p.9). Now there's more bad news for HCA. Researchers at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) is part of the University of Colorado System. It has recently been merged with the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) to form the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. could find no evidence in young sedentary sedentary /sed·en·tary/ (sed´en-tar?e) 1. sitting habitually; of inactive habits. 2. pertaining to a sitting posture. sedentary of inactive habits; pertaining to a fat, castrated or confined animal. men that HCA keeps the body from making fat, as its proponents say it does.[1] And a California court has told CitriMax--one of the two major brands of HCA--that it can't claim (in that state) that HCA causes weight loss unless it comes up with credible evidence. Too bad the Federal Trade Commission doesn't protect the rest of us from misleading HCA claims, by CitriMax and a host of other companies. [1] Int. J. Obes. Rel. Met. Dis. 23: 867, 1999. |
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