Conditions
1. Judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
2. The challenge is limited to the 10 contestants selected by PharmaCare Laboratories Pty Ltd
3. Contestants will complete the challenge over 10 weeks.
4. Any contestant that provides false weight or claims will be disqualified.
5. To remain eligible and stay in the challenge, you must log your progress weekly on you profile page within the FatBlaster website
6. Photo Upload – in order to be eligible for the program you must upload a photo of yourself with the front page of that day’s daily newspaper and then photos once weekly. In the same clothes and same pose.
7. Your participation in the challenge is not valid until you have uploaded your current photo and will remain valid as long as a photo and weight are submitted each week.
8. Submission of your completed Entry Form shall be deemed your acceptance of the Rules and Regulations (as may be amended) and your voluntary transfer to PharmaCare Laboratories Pty Ltd of all right, title, and interest, including copyright, in your photographs and questionnaire answers.
9. FatBlaster challenge questionnaires and scores are confidential and will not be disclosed.
10. Consult your physician or health care provider before commencing any new exercise, nutrition, or supplementation program, particularly if you suffer from any medical condition or regularly use prescription or over-the-counter medications..
11. To the extent permitted by law, PharmaCare Laboratories Pty Ltd, its authorized distributors and related companies including the directors, officers, and employees of any of them will not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever (including but not limited to direct or consequential loss) or personal injury suffered or sustained as a result of participation in the Challenge.
12. Contestants must notify PharmaCare Laboratories Pty Ltd in writing of any changes of address or phone number or health conditions.
13. Completed “sign up forms” must be received by PharmaCare Laboratories Pty Ltd on or before 9 June 2013. Any submissions after that date will not be accepted.
14. Photos, weight and questionnaires must be submitted each week by the following dates 17/6/13, 24/6/13, 1/7/13, 8/7/13, 15/7/13, 22/7/13, 29/7/13, 5/8/13, 12/8/13 and 19/8/13.
15. Please wear the same type of clothing in the ‘Before’ and ‘After’ photos. Shorts are fine – please no posing trunks, briefs or g-strings. Try to get the highest quality photos you can. All photos you send in become the property of PharmaCare Laboratories Pty Ltd and will not be returned.
16. FatBlaster Challenge packages will be sent throughout the challenge. The contents of these packages are at the discretion of the company. The total value of each of these packages is $1,000, recommended retail price.
17. PharmaCare Laboratories Pty Ltd reserve the right to interpret these rules and, if necessary, to amend the rules at its sole discretion and without notice to individual competitors. Any amendments to the rules or changes in prizes will be published online at www.fatblaster.com.au . Rule interpretations and all judging decisions are final. All information and materials submitted become the sole and exclusive property of PharmaCare Laboratories Pty Ltd.

Capsaicin, the ingredient that gives hot sauce its kick, was found by a team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to have a positive impact on weight loss.

They applied small cloths soaked in capsaicin directly to the nerve around the stomach of lab rats to find that they destroyed nerve fibres that send signals from the gut to the brain.

As a result, they were able to lose weight as a change was made to the way in which food is digested by the body.

Lead researcher Dr Ali Tavakkoli said: “By selectively disrupting these signals that pass from the intestine to the brain, we have been able to change the way food is absorbed in the intestine.”

This follows findings from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, where experts found that green coffee beans could be the key to natural weight loss.

A number of overweight people took the product over a 22-week period and lost an average of 17 pounds.