First, this needs to be said about eight ways from Sunday. Hemophiliacs and ANYONE on Warfarin or any kind of blood thinner cannot take tumeric. It's a blood thinner. As are cinnamon, ginger, garlic and other spices.

Second, with all respect, there is no easy button for weight loss. No magic potion, magic supplement, magic anything for weight loss. Weight loss isn't the Holy Grail. Fitness is. Functional fitness is available to you at twenty pounds heavier just as it is to an obese person. We kill ourselves looking for the wrong things for the wrong reasons. I really do not care what the science says in general, what happens inside your unique body may be something totally different. And there's the rub.

Too many people scan a story like this and ONLY see the implied message that Turmeric = Weight loss. Maybe, in some people, but that implicit message all too often means, and forgive me but people do this, that I gorm down a quarter cup of turmeric and eat anything else I want. You and I know that's ridiculous but in a world where people will drink bleach because an Orange Moron told them to, you see my point.

I would seriously rewrite this paragraph:

It is thought that in combination with a healthy diet and exercise plan, turmeric may be able to help the body regulate sugar levels among other ways turmeric may help you lose weight.

It isn't just thought. It's proven. Turmeric alone isn't going to do much of anything. The ONLY answer is to establish decent eating habits, regular movement and a full engagement life to be lived rather than living snack to snack and meal to meal. Reducing sugar will do a hell of a lot more than eating turmeric in the ridiculous but ever-present hope that we can have our cake and eat the entire bakery and have a model-slim figure.

I respectfully submit, as someone who writes about this, and lives it, having dumped 85 lbs 34 years ago and kept it off, that there is NO EASY FIX. I don't doubt that turmeric is valuable to some, those of us who don't have bleeding disorders ( I do, which is why, sadly, I can't eat many of life's great foods and spices) or take meds which could be exacerbated by such foods. Bottom line, if you and I want a healthy body, and I DID NOT SAY THIN IS HEALTHY, we have to do the work. Don't want to do the work, you will not have good health. It really is just that simple.