Dietary supplement and dietary methods employing said supplement for the treatment of obesity

Abstract

A dietary supplement, for use with from 61.3 to 123 grams of dried skimmed milk (or the equivalent quantity of liquid skimmed milk) in the dietary regime disclosed in copending Application Serial No. 338,257 (U.S. Pat. No. 4,009,265), in which the amount of said supplement which contains a datum level of 18.+-.9 mg iron also contains at least 182 mg sodium, at least 308 mg potassium and at least 64 mg magnesium, as well as Vitamin A in an amount of at least 750 .mu.g retinol equivalents, at least 100 i.u. Vitamin D, at least 0.76 mg thiamine, at least 14 mg nicotinic acid (or nicotinamide), and at least 18 mg ascorbic acid, and in which the total calorie content (if any) of that amount of supplement is not greater than 200 Kcals , usually is less than 100 Kcalories, and preferably does not exceed 25 Kcalories. The supplement preferably also contains 50-150 .mu.g iodine and/or at least 157 mg phosporus, and/or traces of copper, zinc and manganese, and/or at least 2 mg Vitamin B.sub.6, at least 5 .mu.g Vitamin B.sub.12, at least 30 i.u. Vitamin E, at least 0.4 mg folic acid and at least 0.7 mg riboflavin. It also desirably contains trace amounts of pantothenic acid, d-biotin, p-aminoenzoic acid, choline and/or Vitamin K, as well as optionally up to 500 mg of L-methionine and/or L-cysteine and/or L-cystine, and/or from 1.0 g to 10 g of essential fatty acid(s).

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