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There are various sports supplements on the market today that aims to help aid weight loss and also fat loss.  These supplements are not only for people who want to lose weight, but also gain lean muscle.  Typically the supplements contain carbohydrates for satiety and protein for muscle building properties, amongst other fat burning ingredients like l-carnitine, bitter orange peel and green tea extract to name a few.

In the UK, one of the most popular diet sports supplements is Maximuscle’s Promax Diet.  It consist of a meal replacement formula to help support your weight loss goals.  Promax Diet is a blend created for customers who are weight conscious and looking for an extremely high quality nutritional supplement to aid their weight loss program.  Maximuscle Promax Diet is a low calorie meal replacement supplement containing only 228 calories per serving (when mixed with water). It primarily contains protein at 40g of Maximuscle’s own whey protein formula called BioMax^TM, 10g of complex carbs and also contains fibre to help with satiety.  Now for the added fat burning ingredients; essential fatty acids (EFAs), conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) at 1.7g per 60g serving, green tea extract and caffeine.  The main component of Maximuscle Promax Diet is the protein called whey protein which is rich in essential amino acids that are essential whilst dieting.  Promax Diet falls into the meal replacement category as it is an ideal substitute for any meal throughout the day.  Promax Diet is great for having instead of fast foods or snacks too.  Recommended daily intake is two servings a day (each 60g), along side other diet supplements within the Maximuscle range such as Thermobol, CLA capsules and Promax Diet bars.  Maximuscle Promax Diet comes in four different flavours: Banana, Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla.

Creatine Stability

Again, this comes back to the whole, to sell a product, a problem needs to be solved or a problem needs to be created and then solved. Creatine stability comes into the latter category. Studies showed that when creatine was left for three days in a very acidic solution, of pH 3 to 3.5, about 21% had converted to creatinine, therefore it is considered to be a very stable substance. As a comparison, if you were to leave the creatine for about an hour or two in tap water pH, the conversion is almost non existent. Even increasing this amount of time left in tap water to a day or two, the result is still fairly negligible. However, creatine is not stable long term, for example in months and years.

A while back, liquid creatine and other various forms were all the rage, but not now, because they were found not to be stable. As far as normal use of creatine goes, it is a non issue. Several independent tests have been conducted over the years, and it was found that creatine monohydrate, such as reflex creatine or usn creatine, was very stable.

Welcome to the blog at Monster Muscle.  We will be posting supplement related information here to help you understand about the sports nutrition supplements that are on the market in the UK today.