Slim-Fast uses meal replacement products to help you lose weight while providing nutrients. Slim-Fast's nutritional products include shakes, shake mixes, meal replacement bars and snack bars. The Slim-Fast plan aims to promote healthy eating choices and combining its products to help you maintain your weight or reach a goal weight.
History
In 1977 Sim-Fast was first introduced by Thompson Medical Company. The website Free Diets explains that the popularity of Slim-Fast grew when Oprah Winfrey used similar weight-loss products in the 1980s. The Slim-Fast company uses celebrity endorsements and different forms of advertising to promote its products, which are sold worldwide.
3-2-1 Plan
The Slim-Fast 3-2-1 plan allows you consume three 100-calorie snacks per day, two Slim-Fast bars or shakes and one 500-calorie meal. The plan focuses on consuming the right number of calories for weight loss and eating frequently to prevent hunger. Slim-Fast sells high-protein shakes and low-carbohydrate shakes, in addition to its standard shake, which has 180 calories. Slim-Fast bars come in a variety of flavors, including cookie dough, peanut butter and trail mix.
Benefits
Diets In Review, highlights the pros for the Slim-Fast diet, explaining that it has many different flavors to choose from, it is convenient, it provides a healthy number of calories and you can lose weight if you follow the plan. Slim-Fast encourages you to practice portion control for foods. Slim-Fast gives you the opportunity to create a healthy meal each day, which gives you the chance to incorporate your favorite foods into your diet.
Results
Slim-Fast produces weight loss results. A study published in the December 1994 "Journal of the American College of Nutrition," found that a simplified weight-loss program using Slim-Fast meal replacements helped participants lose weight. In a 12-week period a total of 273 of 301 subjects lost weight using meal replacements; men lost 50 percent and women lost 35 percent of excess body weight. A total of 35 percent of the participants lost more than 9 lbs. in 12 weeks.
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