Ella Montgomery wrote: > I've been lurking on the lowcarb list and discovered a method alot of > them are using called ECA stacking to keep their weight loss moving > when they hit their plateaus. Its highly controversial, alot of > flame wars over whether it is safe and effective or not. The method > consists of taking Ephedra 20 mg., Caffeine > 200 mg., and Aspirin > 81 mg., 2 - 3x a day. > What do you all think? > > > This sounds like another chemistry set approach to weight loss rather > than eating appropriate quantities of the right food balanced by paleo > appropriate levels of excercise. You had asked ofr the opinion of > "paleo experts" and I certainly am not but am interested in the > reactions of others as well. If the idea is to somewhow goose > metabolism, aren't there better ways to do that such as increasing > muscle mass, putting novelty into routine excercise, and letting > nature run it's course? The compounds mentioned are all natural but > are concentrated extractions and, utilized in that manner, are > medicinal and powerful. On the other hand, these are all commonly > used items. It just seems like one more attempted shortcut > on the order of those over the counter diet pills. Rick