The Supplement Story

What you take can actually be detrimental

- Dr Ross Tucker

There’s a product on the supplement market called ‘Sweet Sweat’: it’s a cream that you rub on your body before you exercise, and supposedly,it causes the temperature of your skin and muscles to rise, which helps you burn more fat when you train. It comes in a little black jar, and the label has a very scientific looking thermal image of a body on it, half of which is covered in Sweet Sweat and is an intense shade of red; the other half is light green, to illustrate the side on which the cream hasn’t been used. I’d like to think that nobody would be gullible enough to fall for such a claim; but I suppose the fact that it’s there on the shelf in the first place means there’s a market for it, and that I may be underestimating how gullible people can be!

THE EVIDENCE