As a dietary supplement, Chitosan has been marketed for about 20 years in Europe and Japan as a “fat blocker”. Chitosan has been known as the "Fat Magnet," "Fat Sponge," and the "Fat Trapper." All of these descriptions are correct because Chitosan attracts fat, soaks up fat, and traps fat in the digestive system.

Once activated in the stomach, chitosan binds to fatty acids and carries them through the digestive system, without being absorbed. This helps reduce the amount of fat calories digested by the body.

Studies have shown that chitosan can attract and hold 6 times its weight in fat for safe elimination. Chitosan works with your body and can be effective in helping to eliminate excess fat from your diet, supporting healthy weight loss and maintaining healthy cholesterol and triglycerides levels.

Regular chitosan products take well over an hour to dissolve in your stomach. CHEATmeals™ Chitosan Ultra dissolves within three to five minutes in stomach acid. You can take it just before you begin eating and it will deliver maximum fat-binding performance throughout the course of your meal. CHEATmeals™ Chitosan Ultra not only works fast, it also out-performs all other varieties of chitosan with three to five times more fat-binding potential.

The chart below shows the superior fat-binding power of CHEATmeals™ Chitosan Ultra compared to regular chitosan and so-called Chinese "high-density" chitosan.

Cassia Nomame is a Japanese plant. Scientists have discovered it has the ability to inhibit the enzyme lipase which the body uses to break down fat. This keeps fat from entering the blood stream and being transported to cells for storage.

This means (A) the food you eat when consumed with Cassia Nomame may not get converted to body fat and (B) this will also help reduce fat deposits and cholesterol in your blood.

Just make sure that you get the EXTRACT form and never the root (which is dry and dead). The best quality and highest potency form is a 10:1 extract.

Developed by Bio Serae Laboratories from Opuntia ficus-indica cactus leaves, NeOpuntia® is now renowned worldwide for it lipophilic and health properties. It's a potent fiber complex that has been shown to bind fatty acids. Hence, similar to Chitosan Ultra® it works as a fat blocker, but through a different mechanism.

NeOpuntia® is a 100% natural, patented fiber, certified Organic, Kosher and Vegetarian.

The lipophilic properties of this innovative functional and patented ingredient are particularly interesting because it has a wide usage of benefits, such as:

• it can enable the reduction of fat absorption
• help lower high blood sugar and insulin levels
• reduce and regulate blood lipid levels, cholesterol, LDL & HDL
• powerful and gentle colon cleansing properties
• helps improve the immune system and detoxify the liver

As you can see, it's not only beneficial for weight loss - but overall health!

Phaseolamin®, discovered in 1975, is derived from kidney beans, Pheaseolus Vulgaris, and contain a proteinaceous inhibitor of amylase.

Phaseolamin has been proven reduce the rate or thoroughness of starches such as potatoes, pasta, bread, etc. from being broken down in the digestive tract into sugars. Basically, it's a very potent inhibitor of carbs (or "carb/sugar blocker").

CHEATmeals' Phaseolamin® is standardized, clinically studied, all-natural ingredient, developed to delay starch and carbohydrate digestion. By possibly causing a temporary malabsorption of dietary starches, it also enables undigested dietary starches to pass the digestive system without converting to glucose, calories or energy.

In recently done clinical's, in vitro quantitative tests demonstrated that one (1) gram of this powerful standardized extract “neutralizes” over 360 grams of dietary starch, or over 1440 carb calories. Other lab-based tests are equally compelling.

The material survives in undiluted gastric and intestinal solutions in laboratory tests. Preliminary results of a European clinical study are very promising, demonstrating an average weight loss of eleven (11) pounds in healthy adults, without changes in diet and exercise, and reduction of the conversion of dietary starch to glucose by an average of 57%.

CHEATmeals Phaseolamin® has been demonstrated effective against a placebo through randomized clinical tests conducted at the University of Scranton, PA. Test subjects in a controlled clinical setting using Phaseolamin®, lost 3.9% of their total body weight and 10.45% of body fat mass, in 30 days, without reducing lean tissue mass, as compared to a placebo group. This translates to a 7.8 pound reduction for someone starting at 200 pounds of body weight, in 30 days.

Maybe even more interesting than CHEATmeals Phaseolamin® starch-blocking ability is that, since starches are quickly converted to sugar, those subjects taking CHEATmeals Phaseolamin® did not experience as dramatic a "spike" in blood glucose levels after consuming a starchy food - this is very important for diabetics or those who have diabetes in their family genes.

SUMMARY: Citrin HCA inhibits the synthesis of fatty acids, increases fat oxidation and fat burning, decreases blood sugar levels, enhances brain serotonin (makes you happier) and suppresses the appetite.

It has multiple weight loss benefits, as you can see and the best part is that it's been used safely and clinically proven since 1990 - so, you have nothing to worry about.

The reason we added this versatile ingredient to CHEATmeals, is primarily because of its ability to cause "fullness" and dramatically help reduce your appetite. The secondary additional benefits is the DUAL fat blocking and sugar reducing abilities.

Remember, there are many forms of Hydroxycitric Acid... what we've used the the GOLD Standard and patented form - Citrin®, because it's:

• The First All Natural Standardized (-)HCA Product
• Independently Tested for Potency
• Shown Safe and Effective in Clinical Studies (since 1991)
• Organically Grown
• Lactose Free

Glucomannan is a water soluble dietary fiber that is derived from the Konjac root. It works be "bulking up" inside the colon, causing you fullness AND at the same time, absorbing fats and carbohydrates in the stomach.

The absorbed fats/carbs are thus eliminated in your stool and therefore, go undigested and hence ZERO calories are absorbed. It has the following additional benefits:

• Gentle and natural fiber source, great for constipation and staying regular.
• Helps lower and regulate blood sugar and type 2 diabetes.
• Reduces bad cholesterol, LDL and fatty acids in the blood.

As we age, your body produces LESS and LESS digestive enzymes. Because of this, you tend to have more stomach problems (gas, bloat, acid reflux, headaches, diarrhea, etc.) and at the same, we do NOT correctly absorb the foods we eat.

When food isn't chewed enough and your body doesn't product enough enzymes to digest, the food is converted to body fat a lot quicker - in addition to all the above digestive problems.

So, CHEATmeals has the solution - A proprietary blend of 14 specific enzymes to help digest the foods you eat and almost eliminate stomach problems and help the food turn into ENERGY, instead of ugly body fat.

Here's what each CHEATmeals® pill contains:

• Amylase for carbohydrate digestion or breakdown into simple sugars
• Protease for large chain protein molecules to make smaller protein molecules
• Peptidase for small protein molecules to make amino acids
• Lipase for fat (triglycerides) breakdown
• Lactase for milk sugar (lactose) breakdown
• Cellulase for breaking down the fibrous plant matter cellulose
• Maltase for the breakdown of malt sugar
• Invertase for the breakdown of sucrose (table sugar)
• Chymotrypsin for large protein chains
• Trypsin for large protein chains
• Pancreatin for the breakdown of protein, carbohydrate, and fats
• The enzymes that have affect protein molecules are proteolytic enzymes.

Remember, the FIRST step in healthy weight loss is CORRECT DIGESTION of foods and this is exactly what CHEATmeals offers, in addition to the carb and fat blocking solution.