Weight Loss

Weight Loss Lies

Have you ever been told any weight loss lies?? The chances are if you have been trying to lose weight for several years and you have read different diet books and watched numerous programs on the TV telling you about the latest fad diet, then it is more than likely you have been told some weight loss lies. It boils down to marketing and every company promotes their information. I have found many companies to be honest and straight forward, while other’s really are lying to you. Do some research prior to starting any weight loss program and use your common sense.

I would like to believe that the lies haven’t been told on purpose, and I am sure that in many cases that wasn’t the intention. There is a lot of misinformation around that many people have taken to be the truth, and the medical profession in their ignorance of most matters to do with nutrition, have been party to these untruths. The food industry is as much to blame as anybody else. It is not that long ago that we were being told that polyunsaturated margarine was better for you than butter both if you wanted to achieve weight loss and also if you were wanting to avoid heart disease. Now we are told that hydrogenated polyunsaturated fats are harmful to our bodies and we are being advised to avoid them.

A more recent food scandal has been the low sugar products and the sweeteners that are used to replace sugar in many weight loss foods.. The dieter’s saving grace has been the fact that even though they were on a diet they could still have sweet tasting food and drink by using artificial sweeteners. We now discover that these sweeteners are nothing but a batch of chemicals. Not only are they thought to interfere with the body’s ability to gauge the calorific or sugar content of food but they also slow the body’s use of food. Could it be then that artificial sweeteners can make us fat? It has been suggested that Americans who consume large quantities of fizzy diet drinks are more likely to gain weight than to lose weight. The thought is that because the sweeteners prevent the body from gauging the calorific value of the food required they have a tendency to over eat

Artificial sweeteners are just another example of man’s inability to fully understand the human body. Our bodies do not function optimally on chemicals. To be fit and healthy we need to feed our bodies good quality nourishing food. Food should be eaten as nature intended. The nearer to its natural state, the better we can utilize it. So the same applies to weight loss. You are more likely to lose weight by eating good wholesome food than the various slimming options that are available on the supermarket shelves.

The bottom line is, do not believe everything you are told or everything you read. You need to do your research. If the article on the latest weight loss product was written by the company that is trying to promote it, then you need to use a healthy degree of skepticism. If in doubt read the label. Are there ingredients in there that you have never heard of? If so the chances are it is best avoided.

Weight loss is best achieved by following a sensible, wholesome diet that you can follow for the rest of your life

Janet Matthews

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