African Mango – How I Discovered the Secret to Healthy, Long Term Weight Loss

This is the story of a product that genuinely changed my life. I’m sharing it because I am sure that there are many other people out there who feel just as unhappy as I used to because they are having trouble shedding extra weight, and I hope that learning what I learned can give them the same opportunity to transform how they look and feel.

Like so many women, I gained weight throughout my twenties and found myself in my mid thirties weighing far more than I wanted to. I found myself wearing frumpy clothes, feeling completely unattractive, and my lack of confidence was holding me back from pursuing the things I really wanted in life – a great partner, my dream job, even going on vacation where I wanted to because I was afraid of showing my body on the beach.

It all came to a head when someone from work posted photos of an office night out on Facebook. Seeing not only how fat I looked, but also how miserable compared with all my co-workers, I resolved to lose weight once and for all.

I started out, as most people do, with a reduced calorie diet and an exercise regime. I began to lose weight, slowly, but it was progress in the right direction. Sadly though, with39 pounds still left to go to my target weight, I hit a plateau. Nothing I did seemed to make the scales budge anymore.

After several weeks of this, I was ready to give up. It seemed like I just wasn’t destined to be thin and happy again. Luckily, before I did, a friend suggested to me that I look into natural weight loss supplements, and during my research on the subject I saw Dr. Oz on ABC talking about a “breakthrough supplement”. He was talking about African Mango. Dr. Oz went on to say that the most significant ingredient in the African Mango pills is a plant extract called Irvingia Gabonensis – any supplements calling themselves African Mango that do not contain this will serve only as a placebo at best. Visit here the Official African mango website.

Inspired by what I had seen, I looked for more information about African Mango and Irvingia Gabonesis, and what I found out convinced me to try it. Here are some of the facts that helped to send me on my journey to a healthy weight and a better life:

What is Invingia Gabonesis?

A quick search on the origins of the active ingredient on Wikipedia showed me that it is a 100% natural ingredient and commonly used in the normal diets of people in tropicalAfrica:

“Irvingia is a genus of African and Southeast Asian trees in the family Irvingiaceae, sometimes known by the common names wild mango, African mango, or bush mango. They bear edible mango-like fruits, and are especially valued for their fat and protein-rich nuts.”

The tropical rainforest of African spreads from Liberia to Congo, with most of it concentrated in Congo. It is in these untamed forests that African Mango grows, and it is in these parts the local people cook the African Mango seeds, which are known locally as “ogbono”.

The ogbono seeds are a powerful thickening agent, commonly used in soups. Ogbono based soup is popular in Nigeria but also in Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo.

The locals, as you can see, have been using this remarkable fruit for centuries, but only recently were its miraculous health benefits discovered.

This convinced me that the supplement was natural and safe, but would it work? My research led me to the results of four studies into the effects of African Mango on people trying to lose weight:

The First Study into the Effects of Invingia Gabonesis Returns Astonishing Results

The first study I found was conducted in 2005, entitled “The effects of Irvingia Gabonensis seeds on body weight and blood lipids of obese subjects in Cameroon”.

The study was conducted on 40 obese people aged 18 to 55. They followed no diet and took no weight loss reduction medication. Two groups were made, one group being given African Mango and the other one an oat bran placebo.

Over a four week period the subjects were given 350 mg of African Mango seed extract. The subjects were to take 3 capsules a day, 30 minutes before meals with a glass of warm water.

After 4 weeks, these astonishing results came in:

• Test volunteers lost on average 9 pounds versus only 0.22 pounds with placebo. That’s 40x the average amount of weight lost then dieting alone!
• The waist circumference was reduced by 1.2 inches only in 2 weeks, and by 2.4 inches in 4 weeks!
• Hip circumference was cut by 1.1 inches in 2 weeks, and 1.8 inches by the end of the 4 week trial period.
• The initial T-cholesterol of the test volunteers was on average 215. By the time the treatment was done it was lowered to 130! That’s 39.21% T-cholesterol reduction.
• The “good cholesterol” was up from 61.23 to 89.9. That’s 46.8% increased HDL-cholesterol.
• The “bad cholesterol” was brought down from 121.37 to 66.08. Clearly a 45.58% decrease in LDL-cholesterol is no joke!

The conclusion the authors of the study reached, was:

“Considering the wide use of Irvingia gabonensis in the preparation of various dishes in Cameroon, its use should be further encouraged for the purposes of control of dietary lipids as well as for weight reduction.”

Naturally, due to the promising results the weight loss pill offered, more studies soon followed.

A Second study proves African Mango Works even Better in Combination with Other Extracts

A second study was carried out in March 2008, involving 72 clinically obese or overweight subjects. The participants were divided into 3 groups of 24: one group being given placebo, the second cissus quadrangularis and the third cissus quadrangularis and Irvingia gabonensis together. Cissus quadrangularis is a medicinal plant also known as Veldt Grape.

This time the volunteers were given the capsules just twice a day before meals and there were no major dietary changes or exercise suggestions during the study.

The results of African Mango in combination with Veldt Grape were even more astounding.

Over the course of the study the third group managed to:

• Drop 11.86% of their initial body weight and a total of 26 pounds!
• Get rid of 20.06% of their body fat!
• Drop 8.6 inches from the waist!
• Get healthier by reducing the total cholesterol by 44.3%!
• Bring down LDL-cholesterol levels by 48.69%!
• Reduce the risk of developing diabetes by lowering the blood glucose to 68.56% of the initial measurement.

The charts below tell the story of the second study conducted. I invite you to take your time and evaluate the results of this study – it really is amazing.

The results of these two studies had certainly convinced me that African Mango, particularly when used as a specially prepared supplement in combination with other active ingredients, certainly helped people to lose weight. I was itching to try it, but I still wanted to know how it worked. The third study had the answer.

A Third Study Shows how African Mango Influences the Formation of Fat or Fatty Tissue

The third study was published in November, 2008. It explains the science behind this miracle product.

It turns out that African Mango has a three pronged effect. It down-regulates leptin and PPAR gamma but at the same time up-regulates the adiponectin protein.

So what is leptin? What is adiponectin? And how is PPAR gamma affecting our bodies?

Irvingia Gabonesis Reduces Leptin Resistance, Controlling Your Appetite Naturally 

Leptin is known as the “obesity hormone”, “fat hormone” and also the “starvation hormone”. It is a protein produced in our fat cells that regulates energy intake and energy expenditure. Leptin enters the bloodstream, signaling to the brain that your intake and expenditure of energy is within normal parameters.

The main issue with leptin is that overweight people tend to develop leptin resistance. The fatter we are, the more leptin we have in our bloodstream.

So, while we do get the sufficient calories we need, our brain doesn’t receive a signal telling us we’ve had enough. It asks for more. After a big meal, the only sign we get to being full, is from a bursting stomach – and by the time you’re feeling that you have already eaten far too much.

Irvingia Gabonensis reduces leptin resistance so less leptin is produced and our brain is able to manage our sense of hunger and satiety more efficiently. This basically enables us to know when to stop eating, naturally reducing food intake.

Irvingia Gabonesis Increases Metabolism Without Increasing Appetite

Adiponectin is a “good hormone” produced in the fat tissue. It regulates a number of metabolic processes and it has been proven to have anti-diabetic, anti-atherosclerotic and anti-inflammatory functions.

The trouble is, in an overweight person’s system, adiponectin is in short supply. In contrast to the leptin levels, adiponectin levels are inversely proportional to body fat content.

The study conducted proved that African Mango stimulates the up-regulation of adiponectin. The result of this is that it will:

• Increase metabolism
• Reduce the risk of type II diabetes
• Will not increase appetite (unlike other metabolic stimulants).

Irvingia Gabonensis Inhibits PPAR-Gamma Protein, Effectively “Blinding” Fat Cells

PPAR-Gamma (Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, to give it its full name) is one of the family of receptors responsible for regulating the burning or storing of fat.

The study demonstrated that African Mango inhibits the formation of fat by inhibiting the PPAR-gamma protein levels.

Think of the PPAR-gamma as the fat cells’ “eye”. Irvingia Gabonensis shuts this eye, meaning that the cells have difficulty seeing fatty acids and therefore absorbing them, leaving fat formation dramatically reduced.

I didn’t need any further convincing, but a final, longer study compounded the evidence of the first three, cementing the scientific evidence behind African Mango’s power as a weight loss aid:

The Final Study Cements the Findings about African Mango

The study was conducted in 2009 and 102 overweight and/or obese volunteers (BMI > 25) participated.  Randomly split into two groups, they were given either 150mg of Irvingia gabonensis or a placebo 30-60 minutes before meals over a 10 week period.

The volunteers were asked not to change their lifestyle.

Measurements were taken after 4, 8 and 10 weeks. By the10^th week, considerable differences were noticed between the two groups. The group that was given Irvingia gabonensis was able to:

• Drop on average 28.16 pounds!
• Reduce waist size by 6.69 inches compared to only 2.09 inches by the placebo group!
• Reduce total fat percent by 6.3%
• Lower “bad cholesterol” by 27.3%
• Take down the total cholesterol by 26.2%
• Cut down the glucose levels by 22.5%
• Increase the adiponectin levels (the “good hormone” as you remember) by a staggering 159%
• Substantially decrease C-Reactive Protein levels (the levels of which rise in response to inflammation) by 52% compared to 1.2% in the placebo group

See the charts below for a visual understanding of the findings in this 4^th study.

Armed with all of this information, I was filled with a new hope that I really could succeed in losing weight; I’d just been going about it the wrong way. Here’s why my original approach, which is the approach most people adopt of eating less and exercising more, couldn’t work on its own:

Why Dieting Alone is an Uphill Struggle

Reducing caloric intake will enable you to lose some weight, as it did for me, but when you reduce what you eat you are fighting against your own body, from both a physical and a mental perspective.

A restrictive diet takes a lot of strength and willpower to stick to. Many dieters find themselves preoccupied with foods that aren’t “allowed”, and if they do succumb to temptation as a result of this (or just through sheer hunger), if they’re anything like me, they feel guilty and as if they have failed. This is the reason why 45% of dieters give up and plenty of those who do reach their goal regain the weight they lost within a year.

Even for somebody with iron willpower (which certainly wasn’t me), as a result of the need to survive when food was less readily available, the human body is designed to resist weight loss. When the calorie intake significantly drops, the body enters “starvation mode”, and tries to conserve energy. The result of this is powerful:

Lowering your calories by 25% severely impacts your metabolism, meaning:

• Your heart rate slows down
• Body temperature goes down
• Blood pressure goes down
• You get hungrier and crave more food
• You burn fewer calories

Your body becomes more efficient at storing fat, less efficient at burning it, and you feel hungrier. No wonder it is so hard to lose weight!

Additionally, dropping 25% of your calories affects your mental state, too. As the body tries to “save fuel” you experience:

• Irritability
• Confusion, disorientation
• Inability to focus

Most of us have plenty of things and people we need to get along with in our day to day lives, and it can take months or even years of dieting to reach our goals. Can anybody really handle being mentally below par and no fun to be around for all that time?

Considering all of this, it is actually no wonder I, and so many others struggled to lose weight as effectively as they wanted to just by curbing food intake – it really is an uphill struggle.

Exercise too, Needs a Little Help to Get You to Your goals

The traditional means of losing weight prescribes not only that we take in less calories, but also that we increase the amount we burn off with exercise. This is absolutely correct, and even when I began to lose weight more efficiently with African Mango, I still made sure I kept up the regime of exercise I had started with my original diet – it made me feel a lot better, and it offers innumerable health benefits all of its own. But why, even with regular sessions at the gym, did my weight loss plateau so dramatically before I began taking African Mango?

In my case, I have to admit that after exercise I would sometimes treat myself to a “reward”. The exercise made me hungry, and of course, my body was telling me I needed more fuel – it was in starvation mode. After a long session at the gym I would feel I could afford to snack, and often, the calories in the muffin I would buy were far greater than the number of calories I’d actually burnt off. I was getting fitter, certainly, but the weight wasn’t coming off.

The other side of the coin is where people exercise without eating enough. This pushes the body further into starvation mode, and leaves them feeling weak or dizzy – the body doesn’t want to relinquish its stores of energy (your fat) if it thinks you’re not keeping them well stocked. Either way, it is difficult to win.

This is why, having read the studies and done my research, I understood how African Mango as part of a supplement regimen was going to help. By changing my hormone levels, it could stop my body fighting back against my efforts.

African Mango Destroys Cravings, Boosts Energy Levels and Enhances Mood

African Mango is a powerful ally in your struggle to lose weight. The Irvingia Gabonensis seed extract blocks C – Reactive protein which means your brain will receive the correct levels of leptin. You will start feeling full faster, eating less and without even thinking about it you will be on a low calorie diet – naturally!  Remember, the people in the studies were not asked to make any conscious changes to their diet. With the hormone levels redressed, your body will control how much you eat as a natural response, meaning you won’t go into starvation mode, and you won’t experience cravings.

This is a big mental switch: from a conscious low caloric diet, which involves a lot of willpower, to a natural unconscious low caloric diet – as your body demands it! Your own body – fighting alongside with you against a common enemy: the extra pounds.

When it comes to exercise, you don’t have to do anything more then you already do to get results. African Mango increases metabolism – as proven in the studies. If you do enjoy exercising, and it’s best you try and add some exercise to your daily routine for all of the other health benefits, the ingredients in the African Mango pill, namely natural coffee extract and green tea extract, provide you with increased energy levels. This makes every workout more effective, and more enjoyable.

African Mango also fights the possible changes in your mental state due to dieting. You won’t experience irritability, lack of focus or confusion. African Mango contains L-Theanine – a powerful amino acid.

Able to cross the blood-brain barrier, theanine has psychoactive properties. Theanine has been shown to reduce mental and physical stress, and improves cognition and mood in a synergistic manner with caffeine – Wikipedia.

Feeling happy, energetic and positive was, for me, almost as great an effect of the supplement as the weight loss itself.

Finally, when compared with other supplements, African Mango reduces stress on the liver. Unlike other weight loss pills that you need to take 5-6 times a day, with African Mango you only have to take it twice a day, half an hour before meals.

My results were incredible, and I can’t begin to explain how much better I felt as soon as I began using African Mango to help me reach my weight loss goals. It may sound extreme to say that a product as simple as this changed my life, but it genuinely did. Not only do I look and feel much better, and have found the confidence to make other positive moves in my life, but also, I now know that I wasn’t a failure because I couldn’t lose weight before, I was just fighting a losing battle against my body.

Delaying is Your Own Worst Enemy

The most important thing that African Mango helps you with is focusing on the things that matter the most to you. I was once told that losing weight is 80% mental, 10% diet and 10% exercise. African Mango takes away all of the struggle associated with the diet part, and helps you feel mentally positive throughout the whole weight loss process.

Just as your body opposes weight loss (which as you can see, African Mango corrects), a lack of confidence to take decisive action can also sabotage your efforts to lose weight.

This lack of self-belief will try and con you into believing things like: “Maybe this African Mango is good, but it will not work for me”. Have faith in your ability to lose weight.

“I’ll do it later” – another sentence your sabotaging part will whisper into your ear. Don’t listen to: “I can’t go jogging until I have the perfect running shoes, but I can’t afford the perfect running shoes until I have lowered the balance on my credit cards.” With every excuse comes another day living unhappily when you could be on your way to a better, happier life.

State your objective loud and clear! Make it in the present-tense and make it a high priority. What we do today is our own choosing. Choose to lose weight. There is no reason why you should not start taking positive steps to lose weight and improve your life right now.

Whatever you decide: whether you try African Mango or go down a different path, do it today. This is probably the most important thing to remember: delaying is your own worst enemy.

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Over 85% of the American people consume caffeine on a regular basis – so is African mango with caffeine bad?

Why is it that everyday people drink coffee or even use supplements (just like African mango) containing caffeine? Some people can’t even start their day without coffee.

First of all, it’s the smell… coming out of the kitchen right into your bedroom, waking you up just like a gentle touch on your skin.

Caffeine in African mango will boost your alertness, your focus and your energy.

But, we’re not here to discuss the flavors, the smell or the way people drink their coffee. Because using it in a supplement strips it of these attributes. You’d use supplements for their enhancing qualities.

The main reason people use it is for the alertness, the wakefulness or the fact that you can improve you information processing. Your attention is higher and you can go on doing more stuff before the 3pm slump hits you hard.

Another reason would be that caffeine was found to promote weight loss in some form, especially combined with green tea. Green tea and caffeine promote less weight loss alone, than when used together. This is a great info, because if you do plan to take a supplement, it would be best to find one that has both of them.

I could also go on how caffeine is great for diabetes, gallstones, how it can fight Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease or even asthma. But it’s not the case. Let’s see why you’d not use it, apart from the obvious reason – you have developed an allergy to it.

This is where we get to caffeine dependency. Because let’s face it, this is why almost all people dread. Caffeine is in fact a stimulant, no need to hide this fact behind the bush. But it’s a mild one; it was even placed on the FDA’s safe list.

Of course one of the pitfalls of taking stimulants is the dosage. You can increase the dosage and risk heart failure, high blood pressure or be conscious of the fact caffeine is a stimulant and it’s best used in no more than 400mg per day (not at once).

Others see consuming caffeine, coffee or caffeine based supplements as a weakness.

Is it a sign of weakness the fact that you drink a coffee to be more alert, to be sharper, to lose weight? If that the case, is using a computer to do you computations a sign of weakness too? Is it a sign of failure to do high number multiplication? Obviously not.

We are not weak – everything we do, we do it to make our life easier and besides… everybody has his “addictions” so to speak. Shopping could be considered as an addiction, for example. But if you think about it, it’s an extension of your personality.

If everything we do could be called as an addition, then we’d better return to primitivism. But we make things to have a better life, an improved life.

It’s not a dependency if you look at it as an extension to help you be better, to help you lose weight. And this is in fact African mango – a supplement to help you lose weight. The decisions what to eat, what to exercise, how much walking you should do each day – these are all up to you. And if you don’t take any step in that direction, no pill will melt your excess fat.

African mango supplements better with green tea?

Or maybe the right question would be should you fear added ingredients in the African mango capsules?  Take a long look at the African mango ingredient list. It’s not always one ingredient on that list, there are several. But this is not as bad thing as you might think.

Green tea is probably the most common one you could find in African mango supplements. Or any other supplements for that matter.

Green tea can greatly increase you mental alertness

Think of green tea like cocoa to milk. You have your milk, you have your cereals but there is something missing. Your breakfast would not be complete without the cocoa. Just the same, dietary supplements are not complete without this incredible ingredient – green tea.

The main reason green tea is so much utilized it’s for the appetite suppressant qualities it brings to the supplement.

It’s simple, even if you haven’t used green tea based supplements, and you just like drinking cups of hot green tea, you know what I’m talking about. Even by drinking three cups a day, you can see a major improvement in your eating habits.

Try this: drink a cup of green tea before a meal and see what happens. Before you even begin eating you’ll notice you’re not that hungry anymore and as you continue eating you can’t but be amazed at how little you’ve eaten yet you feel full.

It’s a great experiment and many swear by it. Others have even gone even further and implemented whole routines around green tea. Whenever they would feel hungry, or notice the cravings keeping inside their heads, they would drink one cup of green tea.

Not only it stops your head from exploding thinking about food for the moment, but implementing such a habit in your life would prove to be a major source of health and weight loss on the long run.

You know how people lose weight by dieting (the ones that manage to go past the first two weeks of a diet regime) but succumb to cravings within just two years and gain all the weight back?

Well, imagine simple routines like the one I mentioned above. Do you think they would go past those two years the studies talk about? Clearly the percentage of the ones going past that barrier would be much greater.

So… should you fear the added green tea in African mango supplement? Should you avoid such an ingredient?

Not at all… embrace it. If you plan to use African mango supplement as a way of helping you with your diet and exercise (and if you don’t you should) seek the ones that also have green tea. I can’t do anything else but help you even more.

As a quick reminder, studies have shown that green tea can be effective in:

• Kidney stones
• Weight loss
• High blood pressure
• Dental cavities
• Various forms of cancer
• Heart disease prevention
• Increasing mental alertness and focus

But just as I’ve reminded you about the effectiveness of African mango combined with green tea, you should also be aware it’s you who will still do the heavy lifting, not the supplement. Don’t rely on the supplement to work on its own, it requires commitment and action from you.

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“Is African mango safe during pregnancy?” – It’s one of the most common emails I receive these days and I believe it’s time to address this issue. In my opinion this is not even an issue about African mango, it’s about whether you should lose weight or not during pregnancy.

Pregnant women are concerned about their weight gain and it’s no surprise if you think about it. Add the weight of the baby, the placenta, the amniotic fluid, breast tissue, the increased blood supply, the fat stores for baby delivery and breastfeeding afterwards, and you get at least 25 extra pounds.

But it doesn’t stop here. We all have to eat for two during this time and not all of us started with a normal weight. To make things worse, some mothers need not to eat just for two, but for three. So how do you deal with this weight gain during pregnancy?

Let’s take a step back, breathe deeply and take a look at the big picture. The most important thing you have to consider is that the baby you’re carrying needs to get all the nutrients and calories in order to grow properly. Losing weight could potentially cause the baby to be delivered with a low birth weight and it also increases the chances to a premature delivery.

Secondly, during pregnancy, a mother stores some of the weight she gains to use it later while breastfeeding. Not gaining enough weight could impair her abilities to breastfeed.

Thus, losing weight should not be a priority at this time as it could potentially harm your developing baby.

How much weight should I gain?

A woman of average weight should gain around 25-35 pounds during her pregnancy, while underweight women should gain a bit more, around 28 to 40 pounds. Overweight women should put on less weight then a woman with normal weight. They only need 15-25 pounds. But how is that possible, to gain only this little?

Well, first of all, “eating for two” – is nothing like that. During the first 28 weeks, you don’t have to eat extra. You just need to, as usual, pay close attention to what you eat and not as much as to how much. You should eat 5-6 healthy meals a day.

The last weeks of pregnancy, women only need 200 extra calories – that’s about two slices of bread. Think more of how to control the weight gain, rather than losing your weight.  Besides, in the first trimester, it’s even possible to lose some weight due to the morning sickness.

If you do see value in this and want to stop adding unnecessary weight during your pregnancy and control your weight gain, have a look at this website. Michelle Moss, the owner of the website, is a Health and Nutrition Coach and has a powerful formula for weight maintenance designed specifically for Pregnant and new Moms.

Why African mango is NOT safe during pregnancy

Well, to begin with, as I mentioned before, losing weight could potential harm your baby. If you do wish to lose weight you should consider using African mango before pregnancy or after you stop breastfeeding.

Another thing to consider would be the other nutrients the African mango supplement could contain even though there are no African mango side effects. Some of the supplements containing African mango also contain green tea extracts (which does contain caffeine) and even caffeine. Point being, some capsules do contain caffeine or other form of stimulants.

Stimulants cross the placenta and just as it can increase your metabolism and blood pressure, it will also increase the baby’s heart rate keeping you and you baby awake at nights. The baby is not fully developed to handle these stimulants.

Some studies also suggest stimulants like caffeine could increase the chance of miscarriage. Even though there are other studies saying differently, it’s best to limit the caffeine intake during pregnancy.

As a conclusion, think more of how to control your weight gain (have a steady pace), exercise more and eat 5-6 healthy meals a day. If you did gain too much weight, talk you your doctor as he’s the only one in position to give you advice on how to lose weight during your pregnancy.

Before you leave, I would once more remind you that during pregnancy you should focus on weight control and consider losing weight as a last resort. For this, I do recommend you have look at what Michelle Moss has to say.

The Body Mass Index (previously called Quetelet index) is an indicator of the body fat one has based on his height and weight.

You should never rely on the body mass index to tell you if you are overweight/normal as it has many flaws and because ultimately it was never its purpose. The body mass index has been adopted by nutritionists and even physicians for its apparent “authority” to diagnose people.

But as I mentioned there are many flaws with this BMI, one being that is doesn’t scale well with taller persons. Taller people have uncharacteristic high BMI even though they have a normal body fat level.

Leaving this aside here is our own BMI calculator, which granted, isn’t much, but to satisfy your curiosity and as well as mine, I’ve made this little app. You can download and install it from here: BMI Calculator.

Don’t worry, while it does require .NET Framework, you don’t have to manually install anything. Just sit back, let the installer do its thing and you will be able to compute your BMI in just a few seconds.

Also, this serves as a quarter stone to a better application that could track your everyday results and goals, serving you a lot better, as keeping track of these is very important. Also it is best used by African mango users who wish to see how many pounds they have lost each day and keep a record of it.

As a favor, install the application, input you height in feet and inches then your weight, press compute and see if you have a BMI within normal boundaries. If you have a BMI higher than 25 please read our African mango reviews and see how others have lost weight.

If you already know all about African mango, you could head over to the official African mango plus website and try it. With 90 days money-back guarantee you risk nothing.

African mango questions and answers in yahoo answers

It’s time to give you some of the questions people ask on yahoo answers concerning the African mango.

The most basic question asked was what’s with this African mango?

To answer this question, although not voted the best answer, was GHL a user with over 6440 answers. To quote him:

Straight from West Africa, the African Mango is the latest fad to hit the weight loss market. We say fad because there haven’t been sufficient clinical studies to back the African Mango’s effectiveness. The African Mango is also known as Irvingia Gabonensis. According to the supporters of the African Mango it has the ability to help:

• shed pounds
• lower bad cholesterol
• lower blood sugar levels

Clinical Study on the African Mango

There has been one study conducted on the African Mango in Africa and was published in the journal “Lipids in Health and Disease.” “Lipids in Health and Disease” (although far from the best) is a legitimate health journal. The study was conducted on 102 people split between those taking the African Mango and those taking the placebo. According to the study taking African Mango resulted in:

“Significant improvements in body weight, body fat, and waist circumference as well as plasma total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, blood glucose, C-reactive protein, adiponectin and leptin level. Irvingia gabonensis administered 150 mg twice daily before meals to overweight and/or obese human volunteers favorably impacts body weight and a variety of parameters characteristic of the metabolic syndrome.”

The study points out that those taking the African Mango lost nearly more than 15 pounds more than those taking the placebo.

All of this sounds great but there needs to be more clinical studies on the African Mango before we all crown it as a miracle ingredient. An obscure study conducted in an obscure country (Cameroon) is not conclusive.
The Bottom Line on the African Mango

The African Mango looks like a promising ingredient. However, we probably wouldn’t count on having the same results of those taking the African Mango from the study. Also remember that those taking the African Mango in the study took 300 milligrams a day. So before buying a diet pill just because it has African Mango, make sure that it is supplying you with 300 milligrams.

That was his African mango review.

Reta asked something else: how does the African mango diet work? The answer came rather quickly from Boysnwaf who said that African Mango is a pill taken twice a day. To lose the maximum weight quickly you will have to eat a balance diet, avoid junk food which the pill will help you by the way and do some exercises. I like to look at it using this formula:
African Mango Plus + Balanced diet – junk food + exercises= Hot body.

Another simple question from Robyn: Does African mango work?

Anndrew replied this question referring my website as a website full of quality information and no bs. I have to thank him for this as I am overjoyed that my articles educate people and that the posts are found useful.

Remember this is the official website of African mango plus I’ve used, I encourage you to give it a try.

Looking to buy African Mango – the best weight loss supplement?

Then look no further! We’ll help you decide which brand to choose. With the Holydays over, and we all know what that means (extra pounds gained), we’re all searching for a way to lose those pounds.

I myself have added 6.5 pounds of fat (got myself on the scale on the 1^st January). I was getting really concerned; 6.5 pounds it’s nothing but it’s the idea that I was back on the wrong track, that I would get even fatter – this was really killing me.

But, there is always hope. I knew deep inside African mango would put me back on track, it has never failed me.

And today, after only 6 days since another New Year’s has passed, I can gladly tell you that I am back to my normal weight. It still amazes me how this supplement can do its magic all the while you’re doing your regular activities – nothing more, nothing less.

It’s such a calming feeling to know you’re back to your normal self, eating the right portion sizes and losing that dreadful felling I had during the Holydays, the feeling that I was on the verge of exploding from eating too much. Depressing thoughts – bye bye!

If anything similar happened to you during these Holydays or on any other occasion, I’m sure you’re dying to know what’s my pick for the best African mango brand. So read on!

Before I tell you what the brand is, let me tell you what it did for me and what it can do for you too. This African mango supplement:

• Boosts your appeal and your self-esteem!
• Controls a hormone called leptin which quickly overrides your eating habits making you eat less.
• Jump starts your metabolic rate (you will burn more calories while resting).
• Super charges your energy levels!
• Stomps cravings (you will not only eat less but you won’t have to suffer from cravings ever again).
• Reduces your overall cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol but it will increase your “good cholesterol”
• It’s perfect for those looking to drop their glucose levels.

So what is the African mango supplement I have used? It’s the African mango plus. Why? Have a look at the African mango plus ingredients.

This ingredient list is packed with high-quality extracts that you won’t find in any other product. The capsules are designed in such a way that you will wake up every morning truly excited about life!

Have you ever pictured yourself with an attractive and lean figure? Can you imagine it? Now can you see your friends and family looking at you in admiration and respect while you’re standing with more confidence, control and passion for life?

Now is the time to have all that! Don’t fool yourself into thinking “I’ll do it later”. Don’t wait for everything to be perfect. Later may never come.

I truly believe with all my heart that African mango can help you discover your “new you” and that it has the power to help you make breathtaking changes in your body and life. The official African mango plus website offers 90-day money back guarantee so you will risk nothing.

Just say maybe, just say “Yes! It’s possible” and visit the website.

Is It Possible to develop kidney stones by taking African mango?

I was recently asked if African mango can give you kidney stones and since this was not on our african mango side effects page I’m answering this question right here. You can always check on that page the side effects of African mango.

It’s a fair question to be honest since over 3 million people ask for doctor’s help regarding kidney stones and over 600,000 visit the emergency rooms. But don’t be frightened because it’s fairly common to eliminate these stones naturally without the need of medical intervention. So, read on to find the answer to your question plus a lot more.

The most common kidney stones are the calcium and the oxalate stones and they appear because, from time to time, the inhibitors found in urine don’t work. Oddly enough, calcium is not a problem as far as kidney stones are concerned – it’s the food we eat.

Studies revealed that the more calcium containing-foods we eat the more we increase our chances of NOT developing kidney stones. The science behind it is that the calcium in the foods binds with the oxalate and thus lowering the amount of calcium and oxalate our body has to eliminate through urine. So going for an African mango diet with calcium-high foods is a perfect combination for you if you wish to lose weight and you’re worried about kidney stones.

Now… does African mango increase you kidney stone risk? There is no evidence to sustain this but as with any supplement it will stress your liver, but unlike other weight loss pills, you only have to take 2 capsules a day. This will not stress your liver as much as other weight loss pills.

Besides the crucial factor that is our diet, what other factors are there, that contribute to developing stones? Here are a few:

• Urinary tract infections
• A history of kidney stones in your family
• Renal tubular disease
• A disorder whereby your body absorbs too much calcium and thus increasing the risk

But I will tell something, that would probably hit you very hard and have an “Oh my God, how come I didn’t think of that?” moment, as I will reveal to you some simple, yet very powerful methods to prevent kidney stones.

Water! I can’t stress this enough – it’s your best way to avoid kidney stones. Additionally, you could drink a tea with the following herbs: Gold coin grass, corn silk and eucommia. Water dilutes urine and if stones are already formed it helps move them along.

Decrease animal protein consumption. These increase the formation of stones.

Lower salt intake. Salt increases urinary calcium excretion.

Lower foods high in oxalate like:

• Spinach
• Sweet potatoes
• Chocolate
• Peanuts
• Fruit cake
• Marmalade
• Grapes
• Green paper
• Strawberries
• Black Indian tea
• Soybeans crackers

Now that you know African mango is not a substantial factor in kidney stone formation and you know how to prevent it, you can focus freely to lose weight with African mango.

If you are asking yourself if African mango gives kidney stones, you must have heard by now that African mango extract is a great way to amplify you weight loss efforts. If you wish to learn more though you can read our African mango reviews page, but if you are ready to order head over to the official African mango website and order.

Pros and Cons of African Mango Supplement

Having the right supplement to help you in your weight loss journey can make or break your plans. African Mango is a new weight loss supplement that is all-natural and just like many other supplements in this category, it hasn’t been reviewed by the FDA. But with so many supplements on the market, the FDA has its hands full, don’t you agree?

What makes this supplement different from all the other supplements on the market?

The short answer would be the African mango extract it contains. What’s so remarkable about this extract is that it was actually tests a few times to see if it really produces results when it comes to weight loss.

But before it was even tested there were already some findings concerning the African mango fruit. Turns out African mango was used by the native Cameroonians to heal their hands affected by scabies, to relief tooth pain, to treat diarrhea, yellow fever, dysentery or even hernias.

Because the African mango seeds are high in fiber it should come to you as no surprise when I tell you that the African mango supplement helps to:

• Normalize your bowel movement
• Lower total-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol
• Increase HDL-cholesterol or the “good” cholesterol
• Control blood sugar levels

Four tests were run to see if African mango can help with weight loss. The results were that it really helps. On average, volunteers (overweight or obese) have managed to drop around 28 pounds in 10 weeks. There were no instructions made concerning the volunteers eating or exercising habits.

I’ve put up some charts to show you the results. Not only did they study the influence on weight loss but the results also proved the benefits it has on cholesterol and blood sugar.

The most impressive part is actually the way African mango works. The supplement will increase your leptin sensitivity by down-regulating the C-reactive protein and leptin levels.

This will allow you to eat less by feeling full a lot faster and at the same time it will crush your cravings. These are probably the best things you can find in a supplement. Think about it… you can eat the same foods as before, but less. Isn’t this a foot in the right direction?

What about the cons of this African mango? One of the major disadvantages would be that it increases your metabolism. It does so by adding 200mg of caffeine per serving and as we all know caffeine is a stimulant. Having an increased metabolism will add to your daily energy expenditure. You will burn more calories per day doing the usual activities.

So, how much caffeine is safe for you? Studies have shown that 100-200mg of caffeine per day (1 – 2 cups of coffee per day) will increase your energy and alertness. When this dosage will go up to 300 – 750mg of caffeine per day you might experience nausea, headache, sleep difficulty or increased anxiety.

Moderate amounts of caffeine (three 6-ounce cups of coffee) are proven to be safe and you will still benefit from the increased energy levels and alertness. Three 6-ounce cups of coffee is around 300mg of caffeine.

Now that you know the pros and cons of African mango supplement, it’s up to you if you wish to invest in it or not. If you do wish to order African mango, head over to the official African mango plus website. African mango plus contains no more than 200mg of caffeine, it doesn’t exceed the tolerated daily caffeine dosage of 300mg per day.

Does African Mango Plus Work?

“You’ve lost some weight, right?” – I get this a lot now. How would you feel if you were asked this at a birthday party, or when you’re going out with some friends at a restaurant?

It feels great, let me tell you! A few months ago, I was at this birthday party and a friend of mine decided to lose weight, almost like a resolution for the New Year. She’s about 180 pounds. Immediately after she announced her decision, I felt her eyes over me, noticing something about me has changed.

“You’ve lost some weight, haven’t you? How did you do it? You have to tell me!”

Just as I explained it to her I will explain it to you. You won’t find a quick fix anywhere. Imagine how long it took for all that fat to deposit, just the same, losing weight has to be done slowly. Clearly it is unnatural and unhealthy to lose weight too fast. I understand you want to get rid of it, quickly, but there are a few steps to consider.

You can’t lose weight if don’t change your lifestyle a bit. Eating the same foods and the same amounts will get you nowhere. One of the two has to go. Out of these two, which one do you consider to be the hardest to accomplish?

For me, giving up the foods I love was the hardest thing to do. I just couldn’t do it. Ultimately you will have to make better food choices, but for now losing weight gradually and implementing new eating habits are the crucial things to consider.

So how do you eat less? You need to find a way to feel full faster, right? Ok… but how?

This is where leptin comes into play. Leptin is a hormone produced by our fat cells that run in our bloodstream and signal the brain when to stop eating. Overweight people have developed a leptin resistance and can’t tell when to stop eating. In fact, their bodies, believe it or not, are in a constant starvation mode. This is way you feel the urge to eat anything anywhere, this is why you can’t stop eating and this is why it’s not a matter of willpower vs our body but a matter of better understanding it.

Increasing the leptin sensitivity has become crucial in fighting the obesity problem spread all over the world. Researchers found the answer in the seeds of this fruit found only in the rainforests of African. This fruit is African Mango.

African Mango increases leptin sensitivity, thus you know when to stop eating.

And let me tell you… it’s great! You eat the same thing, but less. But that’s not the only thing African mango does. No. It also increases how much energy you spend while doing your normal day-to-day activities, from reading a book, to riding a bike or jogging. More energy spent, less food you eat, equals what? Yes! Equals you losing weight!

African mango plus did work for me and my friend, after just one month, she lost 20 pounds. It’s not a lot… I have to agree with you… but it’s still 20 pounds less than the month before. It’s a step forward in the right direction. And besides, some of us, really, only need to lose around 20 pounds. If you’d want to reach a desired weight in just one month… what would you do?

Read here 5 ways to avoid African Mango diet scam sites or just head over to the official African Mango plus website and order now.

5 Easy Ways to Avoid the African Mango Diet Scam Sites

African Mango has been receiving a lot of media coverage lately, including mentions on the Oz show.  As with everything that’s hyped, companies emerged claiming they have the original African mango extract, but actually these companies are in the quick buck biz. I will reveal to you 5 easy ways to spot these companies and sure ways to avoid being just another number in the African Mango scam list. Read On!

Although these companies give African mango a bad name, it’s really a powerful super-fruit! To demonstrate this, imagine 3 plates.

On the first one you see a pepperoni pizza (approximately 2000 calories), on the second one there’s a Burger King triple Whooper Sandwich (around 1100 calories) and on the third imagine your favorite Thai dish or any other dish you enjoy very much and let’s assume it has somewhere around 500-600 calories.

Now, if I would eat everything on all those 3 plates, what would be the result? Well, in short… weight gain.

Women, on average, need about 2000 calories per day. Consuming all of the above would lead to a 1700 difference which translates into half a pound weight gain in that day alone (one pound = 3500 calories).

What if, you could eat only fraction of that? What if, you could eat only one third? Well, for one, the calorie intake that day would be 1250. That’s a whopping 750 calories less then you normally require, one fourth of a pound weight loss in just one day. Do you see the value in a supplement able to accomplish that?

But, what if, that supplement would also be able to increase your metabolism by an extra 200 calories per day. You’d burn 950 calories without changing anything! If you keep a constant 950 calories deficit per day, you would lose 100 pounds in one year! Isn’t this something to consider? You don’t change your lifestyle, but at the same time you end up losing 100 pounds in one year. I’d go for it.

If you could make just one small step, add African mango plus to help you with your weight loss efforts, if you could lose 100 pounds in one year, wouldn’t you do it?

Even though African mango is a great fruit, you must ensure you buy from a legitimate company that will not try to scam you. Here are the 5 easy ways to look out for when buying African mango on the internet.

Call the number listed in the contact section. Let me explain. Many people have ordered African mango and when they wanted to cancel the order, they realized that the number listed on the website was not even in service. No return – money wasted. Who knows what the actual product send was…

Avoid any type of trial offer. PERIOD! Trial offers often come with a total product purchase after two-four weeks depending on the company if you don’t cancel in time (usually it’s two weeks). Possibly there’s even a hidden enrollment to receive a month supply every 30 days. So avoid these types of deals you see advertised on Facebook or other places.

Check the order page to have https:// in front of the URL. This means that the website you’re ordering from is secure. Some sites also include shipment insurance, so that would be a plus.

Cancel your credit card. If you happen to smell something is fishy, like your order doesn’t arrive in time, cancel your credit card to avoid any damage you would normally take from a scam like this.

Talk to your doctor. This is not a scam avoid tip, but even though African mango has no side effects, you should ask your doctor and see if it’s right for you.

We’ve found that the African Mango plus ingredients are the perfect mixture to ensure a steady and natural weight loss. Also, the African Mango plus website is a secure website, a website that has been around for quite some time. Check it out.