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Losing Weight: As Simple As A Sprinkle?




YouNewsTV™Story Published: Jul 21, 2008 at 11:15 PM EDT

Story Updated: Jul 21, 2008 at 11:48 PM EDT
By Joanna Pasceri
Watch the story How would you like to keep eating all the foods you like, but still shed unwanted pounds? New research finds simply adding a sprinkle of this and a sprinkle of that to what you eat may actually help you lose weight!
The sprinkles have been developed by Dr. Alan Hirsch of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.
Dr. Hirsch says, "The sprinkles are a unique blend of different sweet flavors and salty flavors, things like cheddar cheese, mocha, horseradish, strawberry."
The sprinkles are non-caloric and contain artificial and natural ingredients approved for use in food products. You simply shake them on whatever you eat. The salty ones on savory things and the sweet ones on things like yogurt, cereal with milk and desserts.
If you try them right out of the container, you may taste the flavor, but once they're on your meal, that flavor disappears, and they intensify the smell and taste of the food.
Dr. Hirsch says that helps suppress hunger and tricks the brain into feeling full.
Dr. Hirsch just completed a peer reviewed clinical study of nearly 1500 people who used the sprinkles on everything they ate, without changing their diet or exercise routine.
Dr. Alan Hirsch says, "We found an average weight loss over six months of thirty and a half pounds."
Dr. Hirsch hasn't studied the long-term effects yet, however, he's heard from some study participants who stopped sprinkling, and they're keeping the weight off or continuing to lose more.
The Sensa sprinkles are available online, and the company which markets the sprinkles says it is planning a global launch with QVC in a few months.
You can buy them on the website: www.trysensa.com.