Food supplements for body weight reduction: A systematic review of systematic reviews

Obesity

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-244

  Onakpoya, Igho J ^a   Wider, Barbara ^a   Pittler, Max H ^a   Ernst, Edzard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOBESITY AGENT; CALCIUM; CHITOSAN; CHROMIUM PICOLINATE; EPHEDRINE; GREEN TEA EXTRACT; GUAR GUM; LINOLEIC ACID; MANNAN;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EPHEDRA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLATULENCE; FOOD QUALITY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LOOSE FECES; MENTAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; OBESITY; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SOUR ORANGE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTI-OBESITY AGENTS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; OBESITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 79551470415     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.185     Document Type: Review

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