Weight loss aids debunked

FOOD supplements designed to speed up weight loss do not work, experts said yesterday.

A range of supplements — including those based on cabbage, fibre and plant extracts — are no better than “fake” dummy pills in helping people slim, they said.

Presenting their findings, which have yet to be peer-reviewed, experts from the Peninsula Medical School at the universities of Exeter and Plymouth said there is no evidence the drugs work.