The natural fat binder

Many people have a tendency to be overweight.  For more than five million years the storage of fat in our body provided an important advantage in the fight for survival.  When enough food was available, the body stored the surplus as a reserve against times of food shortage.  Nowadays we have enough food to feed ourselves regularly and sufficiently, but the human body is still programmed to store fat.  This often leads to overweight and all the resultant risks to our health, such as diseases of the arteries, heart infarcts, problems of the joints and many more.

In the search for a natural way of controlling our weight, a substance called chitin was found.  It is extracted from sea shells; through a simple procedure the chitin is transformed into chitosan, a substance with fat binding properties, that can be digested and has no caloric value.

Chitosan can bind fat up to five or six times its own weight.  It acts as a fat sponge with a positive ionic value that can capture the chemical fats and lipids with negative values.  The resulting combination of fat and chitosan cannot be absorbed by the digestive system, so that the captured fat leaves the body undigested and does not enter the organism.  Therefore chitosan is often referred to as a fat trap.

When less fat is available for the organism, the body draws the necessary fat from its fat reserves, the so called fat pads at the stomach, thighs and hips, which automatically leads to a loss of weight.

Chitosan should be taken as a course; it is best to take it with lunch and evening meal.  Vitamins and any other medications which contain fat should be taken in the morning, or at least one hour before taking chitosan.  While taking chitosan one should also take a lot of liquids during the day.  When the intake of calories is somewhat reduced and some 3 liters of liquids are taken during the day, chitosan helps to loose weight in a natural way.

As soon as no more weight loss is desirable, chitosan should be taken only when eating a meal with high fat content.

Pregnant woman and nursing mothers should not take chitosan, nor people who are allergic to shell fish.