If you peruse the shelves of your local grocery store or favorite nutrition store, you will notice that there are a lot of protein shakes for weight loss available.  However, protein shakes for weight loss are not all the same.  If you are looking to lose weight effectively, choosing the best protein shakes for weight loss is critical.

For many people, Revival soy shakes are the best protein shakes for weight loss for a number of reasons…
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With spring right around the corner, many of us are trying to lose those last few pounds we gained over the winter months.  A soy protein diet plan is a great way to obtain the weight loss support needed to achieve your final weight loss goals before summer arrives.
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Weight loss and soy: If you are looking to lose unwanted pounds, you will find that losing weight is easy and delicious with my powerful diet.

Many of the popular diets today restrict essential nutrients.  They might be low in carbohydrates, fat, protein, or low in some combination of these three macronutrients.  A diet plan like this can be nutritionally unbalanced and might not provide you with optimum nutrition.  This can result in poor long-term health.  The poor long-term health obtained with many of these diet plans are also due to the fact that many of them do not teach healthy eating and exercise habits, resulting in an unhealthy overall lifestyle.
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Dieting is rarely any fun, but then we don’t diet specifically to have fun. Instead we diet to lose weight, which in the long run allows us to do more of the things we love, and those things are fun.  Since the dieting process itself is generally not a ‘fun’ experience, why not choose a diet that provides more than just weight loss benefits?  As long as we are going to commit ourselves to obtaining the weight loss benefits that come with dieting, we might as well choose a diet that gives us multiple benefits or ‘more bang for our buck’.  Soy diets make an excellent choice because soy diets can provide many weight loss benefits.  A soy diet can offer any of us the benefits that come with losing weight, but a soy diet also can offer us the health benefits associated with soy protein.
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Ready to lose weight? Many of our customers use Revival® soy products in order to help them lose weight or maintain a healthy body weight. Revival Soy can be a great way to lose weight and support muscle mass. Soy protein is a low-fat source of high-quality protein. When combined with exercise and a healthy diet, soy protein makes an excellent “partner” in a successful diet plan for a number of reasons:

• Protein, including soy protein, can help you feel full and satisfied, helping you reduce the urge to snack between meals and late at night.
• Soy protein is “low-carb” since it is the only vegetable that contains more protein than carbohydrates.
• Revival soy protein bars and soy protein shakes are low glycemic, which means it won’t cause a rapid rise in blood sugar after eating them compared to high glycemic foods. This may also help reduce hunger cravings.
• Soy protein is a complete protein, containing all the 9 essential amino acids in the right balance to meet your body’s needs.

There are two simple ways to lose weight with Revival Soy (with a sensible diet and exercise):

Use Revival Soy as your primary weight loss plan. Enjoy a Revival naturally concentrated bar or shake per day as a meal supplement with a good multivitamin. Use Revival’s baked soy protein chips, soy pasta, & soy nuts to boost protein intake and to decrease between-meal and late-night snacking. Make sure to use as part of a sensible diet and exercise plan. Aim for about 1,200 calories per day and exercise 5 to 6 times per week (e.g. walk 30 minutes a day, 6 days a week).

Use Revival Soy as part of any popular weight loss plan. Many Revival customers are already following their favorite weight loss plan and simply integrate Revival Soy into it. Revival soy protein shakes, soy protein bars, soy protein chips, soy protein pasta, and soy nuts are a great way to increase your protein intake and feel full.

Whether you choose to follow your own weight loss or weight maintenance plan or follow some other weight loss program, Revival soy products make a delicious way to support a healthy body weight.*  So, start losing weight now with Dr. Tabor’s Revival® soy protein shakes, bars, snacks, and other delicious products.

Previous research studies have reported that soy protein shakes, when consumed as part of a weight maintenance plan, can improve body composition by decreasing either total body fat or decreasing belly fat in postmenopausal Caucasian and African-American women.  A new obesity research study examined the possible benefits of soy protein on body composition and body weight in postmenopausal Chinese women [1].

For this new body composition study, postmenopausal Chinese women were asked to maintain their normal diet and physical activity routine and were randomly assigned to consume (1) 15 grams soy protein + 100 mg soy isoflavones (expressed as aglycones), (2) 15 grams milk protein + 100 mg soy isoflavones, or (3) 15 mg milk protein alone daily for 6 months in addition to their normal dietary routine.  After 6 months, the study investigators reported mild, but significant benefits of soy protein + isoflavones on body weight, body mass index (BMI), and body fat as outlined below:

• Women consuming soy protein + isoflavones lost about 1.6 pounds more than women consuming milk protein + isoflavones and about 1.3 pounds more than women consuming just the milk protein.
• Similarly, postmenopausal women in the soy protein + isoflavones group lost about 3.74% more body fat than women in the milk protein + isoflavones group and about 2.54% more body fat than women in milk protein alone group.
• When looking at only women who were within 4 years of menopause, consumption of soy protein + isoflavones was more effective at lowering body weight, BMI, waist size, and body fat compared to the other two groups.

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Have you wondered what low glycemic index means? The glycemic index is simply a measurement of how carbohydrates in foods impact our blood sugar levels. High glycemic index products, like white bread, contain carbohydrates that are rapidly digested and absorbed, thus resulting in sharp increases in blood sugar levels. In contrast, low glycemic index products, like soy protein, have carbohydrates that are slowly digested and absorbed, thus producing smaller rises in blood sugar.

Because of the growing interest that many individuals have in foods with a low glycemic index or in following an overall lower glycemic index diet, we are often asked, “What is the glycemic index of Revival products?”

A study by leading glycemic index experts at a certified laboratory in Sydney, Australia found that popular Revival Soy products, including all Revival bars, shakes and soy pasta, have a low glycemic index with little impact on blood sugar levels (Medical Reference 1).  This is important news for anyone concerned about his or her blood sugar health.

Below are the glycemic index values of popular Revival products:

• Sucralose-sweetened or Unsweetened Revival Soy Shakes = 25 (low glycemic)
• Fructose-sweetened Revival Soy Shakes = 33 (low glycemic)
• Low-carb Revival Soy Bars = 47 (low glycemic)
• Regular Revival Soy Bars = 52 (low glycemic)
• Revival Soy Pasta = 47 (low glycemic)

According to The Glycemic Index website, the possible benefits of a low glycemic index diet are numerous including weight loss and reduced hunger cravings (Medical Reference 2).

Because soy protein has a low glycemic index, it won’t cause a rapid rise in blood sugar levels after consumption (Medical Reference 3).

Start enjoying the low glycemic index benefits of soy with Dr. Tabor’s Revival® soy protein shakes, bars, snacks, and other delicious products.*

Medical References:

1.  Blair RM, Henley EC, Tabor A.  Soy foods have low glycemic index and insulin response indices in normal weight subjects.  Nutrition Journal 2006; 5:35.

2.  The Glycemic Index (www.glycemicindex.com)

3.  Eisenstein J, Roberts SB, Dallal G, Saltzman E. High-protein weight-loss diets: are they safe and do they work? A review of the experimental and epidemiologic data. Nutr Rev 2002, 60:189-200.

The prevalence of overweight people in the U.S. has increased dramatically since the early 1990s to the point where it is now considered an epidemic. Approximately 127 million adults in the U.S. are overweight. Weight loss supplements may help solve the problem.

Many diet plans use weight loss supplements rich in protein to help people lose weight. Soy protein is a high quality protein that meets the body’s requirements for all of the essential amino acids, while containing less fat and fewer calories than many other protein sources. Research now suggests that soy products can make excellent weight loss supplements.
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The incidence of overweight people in the U.S. has reached epidemic proportions with approximately 65% of U.S. adults being overweight (Medical Reference 1). Even worse is the excess weight prevalent in our children and teenagers of whom about 16% are considered overweight (Medical Reference 2).

While healthy weight loss can be achieved with multiple types of diets, a soy diet can provide a nutritious low fat diet that can help with weight loss and dieting. Soy protein is a high quality protein (Medical Reference 3) that is low in saturated fat making soy diets a good choice for any healthy weight loss and diet program. Soy diets rich in soy protein make an excellent diet choice because soy protein helps you feel full (Medical Reference 4). A soy diet may also help avoid blood sugar spikes because many soy foods have a low glycemic index (Medical Reference 5, 6). By enhancing the feeling of fullness and by avoiding blood sugar spikes, there is less of an urge to snack between meals and in the evenings.
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Human clinical research indicates that foods high in protein can provide weight loss help (Medical References 1, 2). There are several reasons that foods high in protein are able to help reduce weight gain. Foods high in protein are typically nutrient dense meaning that small amounts of a food provide high levels of nutrients. This helps one to obtain adequate amounts of nutrients with less caloric intake.

Also, foods high in protein have been reported to make one feel full (Medical References 1, 3, 4). It has been reported that eating foods high in protein in greater amounts may also be associated with reduced abdominal fat (i.e. “belly fat”) as part of total overall weight loss (Medical Reference 5). Eating foods high in protein in combination with exercise has been shown to help improve body composition (Medical Reference 6).
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