In my last video on onions, I talked about the data supporting—or not supporting—the role of onions in boosting testosterone in men, protecting bone health, controlling allergies, and dealing with chemo side effects. What about weight loss? Enter the effect of steamed onion consumption on body fat in overweight subjects. The researchers used steamed onions so they could better disguise it against placebo and dried it into onion powder and gave people just a miniscule amount—about an eighth of a teaspoon a day. Surely, a little daily dusting of onion powder isn’t going to affect the course of people’s weight, but check out these results, reported in the abstract: a significant reduction in body fat mass on both DEXA scan and measured by CT scan, a significant decrease in the areas of whole fat, visceral fat, and subcutaneous fat. Hold on. If a little onion powder is so effective for …