Introduction

Obesity, due to its effects on the health of the individual, has become one of the most important public health problems in the industrialized world.

While its causes are numerous, it is important to recognize that the results of the various therapeutic approaches are often very disappointing. In fact, according to a number of international studies, there appears to be a failure rate of over 90%.

For this reason, many researchers have attempted to find an appropriate response to this curse. One line of research has consisted of an attempt to obtain the effects of total fasting without any of the inconveniences.

Thus, the concept of the PROTEIN DIET was born. This method was fine-tuned for the first time in the United States in 1973 by professor G.L. BLACKBURN.

Traditional low-calorie diets work by reducing the total number of calories while still contributing the three major nutrient categories (proteins, fats and carbohydrates). However, the PROTEIN DIET consists of consuming:

The necessary quantity of PROTEIN

Accompanied by a limited quantity of fats and carbohydrates

To oblige the body to burn off its fat reserves to create the energy it needs on a daily basis.

Weight loss occurs first in the areas of the body where excess body fat is most present, while preserving muscle mass by providing a daily contribution of highly nutritional protein.

In practice, the protein diet presents many advantages when prescribed and followed up by a physician who alone can appreciate the indications and contraindications: effectiveness, fast action and simplicity.

AXONE Laboratories P.S.P. makes available to you a complete range of hyperprotein products of high organic quality adhering to current standards and regulations (CEDAP notice of October 8, 1997).

To know more about these regulations, we invite you to consult the link “current standards and regulations.”

Finally, although you may have been familiar with the protein diet in its early stages, with its less than engaging flavours and textures. However, as the years have gone by, much work has gone into research and development – and Axone now has the pleasure to make available to your patients a range of products still as rich but, above all, much closer to the expectations of consumers and much more loyal to our culinary traditions.

In this spirit, we now offer you more than 80 flavours :

• Original and subtle
• Creamy textures
• Easy preparation

In these forms:

• Packets (puddings, cream soups, omelettes, soufflés, and purées, allowing variation of liquid, solid and semi-solid forms)
• Tagliatelle and semolina
• Axodrinks in individual dose and ready-to-drink beverages
• Biscuits and chewy bars