SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
alcohol and society
17/04/2002
Firm up your beer gut in three weeks …
Svensson, distributor of health products with a basis of natural ingredients, has pulled a new leptosome out of the hat. Pils-Min®, tablets with vegetable ingredients that counteract the effects of alpha amylase and help to firm up a beer gut. Honest to a fault, the producer does say that the tablets work best in combination with a supervised diet.
Which is word to the wise, because following a diet is undoubtedly much more efficient than swallowing tablets. Well, who knows? Is Svensson really party to comparative studies whereby the findings of diets - with or, who knows, without tablets - are susceptible to meaningful comparison in a scientifically accountable manner? Svensson goes on to maintain that habitual beer drinkers down a surfeit of wet, “fast” calories. Fast calories? What, pray tell, are “fast calories”? Are they calories that you take in fast when you down a glass in one go? You pays your money … Scientifically, however, there is no real difference between your slow and your fast calories. A calorie is a calorie. Anyway, we know that heavy beer drinkers are given to “chowing down”. Heavy beer drinkers are compulsive snack eaters. And these snacks are usually rich in saturated fats, and in an overabundance of calories. And we all know what all those naughty little calories get up to. Don’t worry, be happy, say Svensson. The calories entering a beer drinker taking Pils-Min® are not stockpiled, just passed through. “Passed through?” Doesn’t the beer make the stomach know where it’s been? Do these tablets sort of “wrap the beer up” and pass it out through the other end? Company best avoided! The vegetable miracle cure is good cheer not only for beer drinkers, it’s also encouraging news for non-drinkers who want to keep a firm stomach. At least that’s what the publicity says. Cast your nets wider, catch the big and the small. The photos, if truth be told, are promising: a beer gut Before the Pils-Min® cure, a six-pack After. Not forgetting the 14.85 Euros for a three-week course of treatment. Tell us what you think!
Dr. M. Finoulst
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