After years of spending hundreds, and in many cases thousands, of dollars, after getting ill on them, and after seeing no kind of results in the kind of losing weight or fat burn from them, many have finally recognized they are WORTHLESS.
Yet, many are still confused if the supplements that are sold as "Meal Replacements", "natural supplements", "Weight Gainers", and "amino acids" have some good use in substituting for some entire foods that will help hasten the goals of theirs to lose some weight and lose unwanted fat.
Surely you see them in just about every other page in every-single bodybuilding / health magazine. Every person at the gym makes use of them.
Go to any food market and they have them there also. Sure, even you have probably used them & / or are using them right now.........
Shakes and supplements.
A variety of "meal replacement" powders and shakes, also called RTD's, are sold as being a substitute for a true, whole food meal.
The makers claim that they're "just as great, if not more effective, than eating a real meal", supposedly, which will, speed up the weight loss process.
They claim to have increased quantities of protein, lower quantities of sugars / carbs, and include components like BCAA's, CLA, positive reviews HMB, Creatine, Glutamine, so on and so forth.