{"id":52681,"date":"2021-06-26T21:56:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=52681"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:10:19","slug":"no-strong-evidence-supplements-do-anything-for-weight-loss-large-review-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/no-strong-evidence-supplements-do-anything-for-weight-loss-large-review-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"No Strong Evidence Supplements Do Anything for Weight Loss, Large Review Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48058\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 291px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/11\/Batsis-John.tdi_-scaled-e1606768582882.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/11\/Batsis-John.tdi_-scaled-e1606768582882-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"john-batsis\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">John Batsis, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dietary supplements do not do much to help people lose weight\u2014that\u2019s the verdict from a <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/oby.23110\">large new review<\/a> led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/john-a-batsis-md\/\">John A. Batsis<\/a>, MD, associate professor of medicine in the division of geriatric medicine and Gillings School of Global Public Health, in report from <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/no-strong-evidence-supplements-do-anything-for-weight-l-1847157299\">Gizmodo<\/a>. The review found little high-quality evidence from studies trying to test these supplements\u2019 claimed benefits and only inconsistent evidence that some supplements could possibly offer a small boost in losing weight.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/no-strong-evidence-supplements-do-anything-for-weight-l-1847157299\">Gizmodo article<\/a>.<br \/>\nReview the <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/oby.23110\">study published in Obesity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dietary supplements do not do much to help people lose weight\u2014that\u2019s the verdict from a large new review led by John A. Batsis, MD, associate professor of medicine in the division of geriatric medicine and Gillings School of Global Public Health, in report from Gizmodo. The review found little high-quality evidence from studies trying to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/no-strong-evidence-supplements-do-anything-for-weight-loss-large-review-finds\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about No Strong Evidence Supplements Do Anything for Weight Loss, Large Review Finds\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":48058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,2],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-52681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geriatric-medicine","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No Strong Evidence Supplements Do Anything for Weight Loss, Large Review Finds | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/no-strong-evidence-supplements-do-anything-for-weight-loss-large-review-finds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No Strong Evidence Supplements Do Anything for Weight Loss, Large Review Finds | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dietary supplements do not do much to help people lose weight\u2014that\u2019s the verdict from a large new review led by John A. 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