A healthy weight loss diet plan is always the best diet plan

Weight Loss Diet Plan #1 - Adkins Diet: Considered a high protien diet, the Adkins Diet is the most famous of all diets ever.  Created by cardiologist Dr. Robert Adkins, initially intended as a fast-weight loss diet for his patients who needed heart surgery but were too over weight to survive the operation… so Dr. Adkins designed a diet to help them lose a lot of weight fast so they could survive the surgery.

The diet was so effective at producing a fast drop in weight, it gained nationwide recognition and Dr. Adkins became known more for his weight loss plan than for his life-work of being a cardiologist helping people with heart problems.

The Adkins Diet is a 3 phase program

• Phase 1 of Adkins excludes ALL carbohydrates… no bread, rice, pasta, fruit, beer, beans, potatoes… NO carbohydrates, but all the protein and fat foods you want, including steak, chicken, ribs, sausage, eggs, fish, pork, etc.  
• Phase 2 of Adkins lets you begin to include just a few carbohydrate-containing foods like vegetables,  beans, and whole grains, but in VERY restricted amounts.
• Phase 3 of Adkins, which begins AFTER you’ve lost all the weight you need to lose, is intended to last for life, and in phase 3 you can occasionally include other carbohydrates in small amounts.

The diet is popular because it produces impressive initial weight loss, however the Adkins diet has become perhaps the most highly criticized diet ever for a variety of reasons, most of which have little to no basis in fact.

Long term studies show a large percentage of people who lose weight on the Adkins Diet, maintain weight loss as long as they stay on the diet, but many have trouble staying on the diet and immediately regain weight when they go off the diet. 

Biggest Problem with the Adkins Diet: 1) it is generally misunderstood and therefore not followed correctly; 2) There is too much emphasis on weight loss and not enough explanation or emphasis on keeping the weight off once you lose it.  .

Bottom Line: It takes 5 things to lose weight and keep it off for life without feeling hungry or deprived.  Though somewhat controversial, the Adkins plan offers metabolically sound diet advice, however, the program falls short in at least three of the five things it takes for lasting weight loss success. 

Weight Loss Diet Plan # 2 - South Beach Diet - created by Dr. Arthur Agatston, also a respected cardiologist, this popular diet is very similar to the Adkins 3 Phase Diet.  Like the Adkins Diet, phase 1 restricts all carbohydrates; like Adkins, phase 2 reintroduces certain healthy carbohydrate foods like vegetables, salad and so on, and like Adkins, phase 3, after you lose the weight, you go on a restricted carbohydrate eating plan you stay on for life.  There’s more to it, but that’s it in a nutshell.

This diet is strikingly similar to the Adkins Diet, but with more emphasis on all the food you can eat, and with less discussion of the metabolism involved. The South Beach Diet Involves no calorie counting or weighing of portions, which is a big positive.

The South Beach diet is very popular and most people maintain weight loss as long as they follow the diet.  However, while there is nothing incorrect about the diet, the plan is incomplete in explaining each of the 5 factors that must be in place before you can reach a healthy body weight and easily maintain that weight for life.  As such, it is common for people to lose weight, on the South Beach Diet, then drift off the diet and quickly regain the weight and then feel like they failed.

There is nothing wrong with this diet other than the program focuses too much on food and too little on other vitally important diet, nuitrition and lifestyle factors involved in losing weight, keeping it off, and becoming healthy and strong. 

Weight Loss Diet Plan # 3- The Zone Diet: Created by microbiologist Barry Sears, the Zone diet, like Adkins and South Beach, was formulated around an accurate understanding of what causes the body to make and store fat, and what causes the body to burn stored fat for fuel. 

The Zone book was originally intended as a refresher course in human bio-chemistry for medical doctors who were making the tragic mistake of recommending low-fat diets for weight loss and for controlling diabetes. 

The Zone Diet boils down to getting about a third of your calories from lean protein foods, and two-thirds from fruits and vegetables with only very minor amounts of other carbohydrate-rich foods. 

Biggest Problem With The Zone: The Zone offers sound diet and supplementation advice, however, like most other diet plans, the program provides no frame of reference or step-by-step strategy to make the kind of overall diet, nutrition and lifestyle changes it takes to lose weight and keep it off for life. 

If losing weight and keeping it off was easy everyone would do it and no one would be overweight.  But quite the opposite is true.

Whether you lose weight the right way or the wrong way, losing weight is much easier than keeping it off, which is why the experts tell us that 9 of every 10 people who lose weight, regain it all back, plus more within one year or less. 

The key to success with your weight and your health, is not just to lose weight, but to keep it off. 

Even though some popular, doctor-endorsed weight loss programs offer good advice on how to lose weight,  practically all the emphasis is on weight loss, with barely a mention of what’s actually involved in keeping the weight off and becoming a powerhouse of health and vitality.

Best Deit Plan # 4 - 5 Steps To Optimal Health Permanent Weight Loss and Health Improvement Program – The 5 Steps Program is not a quick weight loss plan.  The 5 Steps Program puts equal emphasis on EACH of the 5 Steps it takes to lose weight, keep it off, and dramatically improve your health.  

Like Adkins, The South Beach Diet Plan and the Zone Diet, 5 Steps To Optimal Health offers metabolically sound eating advice, but 5 Steps is the only program that explains in simple, straight forward language the science of weight loss AND the diet, nutrition and lifestyle steps that allow you to reach an attractive, healthy body weight, easily maintain that weight and never feel hungry or deprived. 

The 5 Steps Program is not specifically about losing weight, it is about understanding and making the diet, nutrition and lifestyle changes that naturally lead to a lean, healthy body weight, higher energy, and overall better health. 

Biggest Problem With 5 Steps To Optimal Health Plan - This is not a quick fix diet plan.  The program teaches you how to lose weight safely, keep it off permanently, with the commonly reported side affects of healthier blood pressure, lower cholesterol, healthier blood sugar, and naturally higher energy.  If you’re looking for a magic pill, this is not what you’re looking for.  

More Information On 5 Steps To Optimal Health - Click Here

Summary of All Diets

Low Fat Diets: Low fat diets are by definition high in carbohydrates and relatively low in protein.  Common low fat diet foods include pasta salad; rice; potatoes; bread, cereal; beans; low-fat dairy products, fruit, vegetables; and only the leanest cuts of meat.  Any of the above would be good props to point to while discussing this diet.

Problem With Low Fat Diets: Low fat diets are based on the mistake idea that eating fat makes you fat, which is false.  Eating fat does not make you fat anymore than eating sweets make you sweet or eating spicy food makes you spicy.  The idea is absurd.

Bread, rice, pasta, etc, are very HIGH in carbohydrates and eating carbohydrates will make you fat… because carbohydrates are nothing but sugar molecules hooked together, see attachment.

A low fat, high carbohydrate diet causes a rise in blood sugar and causes your body to begin making and storing fat almost immediately.   Bottom line – low fat diets make you fat.

Low Sugar Diet:  The GOLDEN KEY to a healthy body weight and good health is to learn to eat for blood sugar control… and eliminating anything obviously high in sugar from your diet is an excellent first step. 

Just 2 soft drinks a day can add a pound of fat every 10 days. 

Get the candy and soft drinks out of your diet and you will effortlessly drop a few pounds.  Typically, people who consume sweets throughout the day are driven by raging nutrient deficiency and they will NOT be able to beat the deficiency with will power… they MUST get the nutrition they need.  This topic is discussed in detail in the book, 5 Steps To Optimal Health.

Low Carb Diet:  Carbohydrates ARE sugar and too much sugar will make you fat and sick.  With this in mind a low-carb diet is a step in the right direction, but that does not mean cut out all the carbs.  You should get your carbohydrates primarily, if not exclusively, from fresh green and brightly colored vegetables and fresh non-tropical seasonal fruit.

Important Points About Losing Weight

Weight loss is about the science of metabolism; get the science right and you lose weight and keep it off, get it wrong and you may struggle for years and never reach your goal and it doesn’t matter one bit how many weight loss pills you take, how many diet books you read, or how faithfully you follow the latest celebrity diet. 

Losing weight and keeping it off is EASY… but it is NOT SIMPLE.  To succeed, you need a good basic understanding of what causes your body to make and store fat, what causes you to burn stored body fat, and what kind of diet, nutrition and lifestyle it takes to lose weight and keep it off WITHOUT DIETING and without ever feeling hungry or deprived.

The Bottom Line On Weight Loss

Diets don’t work… The ONLY way to lose weight and keep it off long-term is learn how to eat in a way that gives you the essential nutrients you MUST have to avoid hunger and food cravings, and that stimulates your metabolism to burn stored body fat for energy and not constantly make and store new fat.

All this is explained in my book, 5 Steps To Optimal Health.  Knowledge is power!

Your questions and comments are welcome.  Please join in, take part, and add your voice to the conversation.

A food craving is your body’s cry for nutrients… not a cry for pizza, candy, soda or any nutrient deficient food. 

Your body needs vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, essential amino acids, and so on to function properly.  Your brain constantly monitors your blood sugar and your supply of essential nutrients.  Excessive hunger and food cravings, including sugar cravings, are caused primarily by a deficiency or an imbalance in some essential nutrient. 

When an essential nutrient is in short supply, the brain sends a message that we interpret as a strong desire to eat something,, maybe a particular food like ice cream or sweets, chips, cookies, salty foods or no telling what.

Cravings that are caused and driven by a need for nutrients are EASILY overcome when the nutrients are supplied.  For example, two tablespoons of flax seed oil a day supply enough of the essential omega 3 fatty acids to wipe out a sweet craving in 2 or 3 days. 

Best Way To Stop Cravings

The only way to effectively stop a food craving is to supply the missing nutrients in the form of healthy food and/or proper supplementation. Do this and cravings will be gone forever.

A craving for salty foods suggests a need for sodium… eat celery or cucumber instead of chips;  sweet cravings almost always respond to essential fatty acids, take flax seed oil or coconut oil instead of eating the junk;  craving chocolate may suggest a need for magnesium; and craving meat of any kind suggests a need for B vitamins, carnitine and minerals.

Instead of sweet drinks and candy, cookies, chips, etc, supplement with flax seed oil  and/or coconut oil and snack on things like cheese sticks and apple slices, almonds and pistachios, plain yogurt with fresh or frozen blueberries, or celery ribs with almond butter, or a hard boiled egg, all of which are loaded with nutrients and will curb appetite and stop food craving practically overnight. 

For More Information On How To Stop Cravings

In 5 Steps To Optimal Health, food cravings and hunger are explained in detail and you receive complete instructions to eliminate excessive hunger, stop food cravings and put an end to sugar cravings in  just a few days with simple diet and nutrition adjustments that are easy to make.

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A sedentary lifestyle sets up a chain reaction for decay and declining health and creates many problems, including reducing your ability to take in and use oxygen.

If you take in less oxygen, you get less oxygen in your blood.  Less oxygen in the blood means less oxygen in the cells and less oxygen in your cells means less energy and vitality in your life.

Improve your ability to take in and use oxygen and your energy and vitality automatically improve.

If you exercise regularly, you already know exercise is one of the most energizing activities you can possibly engage in.  If you don’t exercise, you may find it hard to believe there are few things you can think of or imagine that feel better than a good, mind engaging, body challenging workout.  

Aerobic Exercise Keeps You Energized

 An aerobic workout not only increases cardiocascular fitness, aerobic training improves your bodys ability to keep your blood oxygenated so you feel alert and energetic.

A sedentary lifestyle reduces cardiac output, which means less blood is pumped by your heart.

• This results in a double-whammy of deprivation, lower oxygen intake and less blood to carry oxygen and nutrients to your brain and organs.
• To compensate for less oxygen and nutrients, the heart beats harder and blood pressure rises, all in a futile attempt to feed the brain.

Chronically reduced oxygen and nutrient levels in the blood brought on by a sedentary lifestyle and a lack of exercise can eventually lead to high blood pressure, a weaker heart and a decline in hormone production resulting in shrinking muscles, thinning bones, a weaker immune system and growing inability to concentrate.

Every part of your body, from the inside out responds favorably to increased physical activity. The more you move, the healthier you become.

Mountains of research published in dozens of medical journals document the positive affect regular exercise has on maintaining youthful hormone levels, strength, health and vitality on every level.

Fight Depression With Aerobic Exercise

Exercise and you will feel better about life. Studies on depression consistently show that both aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercise fights depression MORE EFFECTIVELY than any prescription drug.

Your body is made for movement. You need a certain amount of physical activity to stay healthy. A sedentary lifestyle makes you weak FROM THE INSIDE OUT.

Exercise properly and you’ll be stronger from the inside out because exercise stimulates your glands to produce youthful levels of important hormones that help you stay healthy and strong.

One reason you have more energy when you exercise is because regular exercise improves your lung capacity.

• Greater lung capacity results in more oxygen in your blood.
• More oxygen in your blood means your muscles get the oxygen required to function efficiently and avoid lactic acid build up.
• By avoiding lactic acid build up, you experience less tiredness and fatigue and you feel better, healthier and stronger.

Know how refreshed you feel after a nice sauna?  You feel refreshed because the sauna purges lactic acid from your muscles. But wouldn’t it be nice if lactic acid never built up?

Sedentary people tire easily for several reasons, including poor blood oxygenation and lactic acid build up in their muscles. Exercise helps reverse these problems.

Oxygen not only feeds your muscles, oxygen feeds your brain.  When your blood is oxygen rich, your brain functions more efficiently, which means it is easy to remain alert and focused.

For a quick demonstration to experience for yourself how a little extra oxygen makes you feel, just stop and take 3 long, slow breaths, breathing deeply from your stomach and holding each breath for 10 seconds before letting it out and taking the next.

Go on. Give this a try. Check it out for yourself.

Take 3 nice deep breaths. Inhale slowly until your lungs are full, hold the air in for 10 seconds, then let the air out slowly and enjoy an instant jump in energy and alertness.

Sedentary people and couch potatoes get less oxygen in their blood and have a reduced capacity for moving the oxygen they do get.

Low blood oxygen and a reduced capacity to move the oxygen once it gets in the blood always results in less energy, less endurance and greater tiredness and fatigue.

Fortunately, the opposite is also true.  Increased oxygen capacity results in higher energy and greater endurance.

Aerobic exercise done properly . . .

• INCREASES YOUR BLOOD OXYGEN LEVEL and;
• IMPROVES YOUR CAPACITY TO TRANSPORT THAT OXYGEN TO
  YOUR CELLS resulting in greater energy and vitality.

Besides increasing mental alertness and building energy and endurance, a good aerobics exercise workout done properly gives you greater strength and flexibility, both important to keep you active.

Speaking as the author of5 Steps To Optimal Health and an expert on health and weight loss, I can assure that the VERY BEST form of aerobic exercise is what ever you enjoy most and will do consistently. 

Here are a few videos showing different approaches to aerobic exercise.  Enjoy!

Smart Bounce Beyond Basics Rebound Aerobic Workout

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How to Do Low & High Impact Aerobic Exercises : Specific Low Impact Aerobic Exercises

How to Do Low & High Impact Aerobic Exercises : Specific High Impact Aerobic Exercises

How to Do Low & High Impact Aerobic Exercises : Warming Up for High & Low Impact Aerobic Exercises

Exercise is Medicine™-Home Gym-Aerobic Exercise

10 Minute Jump Rope Cardio Workout

Aerobic Pilates Exercise Alla Zorikova

Worlds Greatest Kickboxing Workout

Losing weight and keeping it off, like learning to dance, cook or do anything well, requires three basic things;

1) An understanding of the success principles involved;

2) Specialized knowledge of what it takes to reach your goal and get what you want, including knowing what not to do; and;

3) A realistic mindset about exactly what can be accomplished over what period of time. 

3 Success Principles to Keep You Focused & On Track

This applies to any accomplishment from losing weight or learning to play the piano, to getting a better job or finding the love of your life.

Best Way To Lose Weight Principle #1: Success Is Decision

While it’s possible to lose weight fast and easy, the fastest way to lose weight is never the best, because fast weight loss is dangerous and never lasts for very long.

You can’t hit a target you can’t see, which means to be successful you have to decide exactly what you want.  And when it comes to weight loss,  losing weight in a healthy way that lasts seems to be the only target that makes any real sense.

One of the biggest reasons so many are tired, overweight, and suffer with less than excellent health is because they have no clear, well-defined target regarding their health.  You have to know exactly what you want before you have any chance of getting it.

Failure is easy, anyone can do it.  The formula for failure is…

• No clear goal + No real plan + No real commitment = Average results 

If you want to lose weight, and become more energetic, or just become an overall healthier, happier person, you have to set specific goals that mark that accomplishment. 

Being healthy is not a goal, however having a certain weight and body fat percentage, and healthy blood pressure and cholesterol as defined by your doctor are excellent goals because they are specific. 

Decide how much you want to weigh, decide the body fat percentage you think is perfect for you, and if other health issues are a concern, decide on specific targets to reach and write it down, including why this is important to succeed and how you will benefit.   Review you goal, refine it, restate it, rewrite it until it is perfect, be as specific and as exact as possible and state your goals in the positive and in the present tense. 

Don’t say, ‘I want to lose 20 pounds’.  Instead say exactly what you want and give it a date.  If you weigh 145 and 125 is your goal, say, ‘On such in such a date, I weigh 125 pounds and I feel healthier and more energetic than ever.’  

Focus on what you want.  Think about it.  Use it as a self-motivator.  Visualize how excited you’ll feel when you get what you want.  Imagine conversations with friends; hear them complimenting you on how wonderful you look since you lost weight and how you just seem to bubble over with energy.  Make it as real as possible in your imagination. 

By firing your imagination with detailed, vivid images of your success, you tell your subconscious mind to GET TO WORK and help you reach your goal.   Everything you need to succeed beyond your wildest dreams is available to you right now.  You may not be aware of it, but it is there nonetheless.

Setting positive, timed, specific goals is like tuning your mind to “the success channel”.  Opportunities show up, you start doing things that move you toward success and before you know it everything’s going your way.   What could possibly be better?

The formula for weight loss success is;

Specific Goal (Weigh 125 pounds by a certain date)  + A Good Plan + Real, Focused Commitment = EXTREME SUCCESS!

Paul J. Meyer defines success as, ‘the progressive realization of pre-determined, worthwhile goals’, and Zig Zigler says that a goal without a specific date set for accomplishment is nothing more than a dream.

Whether your goal is to improve your blood pressure, lower your cholesterol, reduce your need for over the counter medications, lose weight, become more energetic, get fit and fit, or simply to get in the best health of your life, setting a SPECIFIC GOAL and giving yourself a SPECIFIC TIME FRAME to reach that goal is an important key to achieving your success. 

Best Way To Lose Weight Principle #2: Action Makes The Magic Happen

More than any other factor, what you get in life is based on what you do. 

The prescription for success is; decide what you want, learn how to get it, make plans and set goals - get up, get to work, and do it now.

Action is the Great Separator in life.

• Action separates those who wish, want, and hope, from those who have, be, and do. 
• Action separates those who have, from those who have not.
• Action separates those who say, I should have, from those who say, I did and I’m glad.
• Action separates winners from losers. 
• Only through your action have you ever achieved anything of value.

Taking action is where the rubber meets the road.

Take ACTION everyday, to succeed, do something EVERYDAY that moves you closer to getting exactly what you want. 

Get a good plan and follow it.  Develop a success-arc and take action. 

Best Way To Lose Weight Principle #3: Never Sabotage Your Own Success

Avoid things that stop or prevent you from reaching your goals!  Just say no!

If you’re committed to reaching your healthy body weight, ust say no sodas, dessert and junk food. You don’t need special training or insider knowledge to know junk food and sweets are bad for you.  When you decide to improve your health, let the junk food drop out of your life, just release it, let it go, and feel good knowing you made a good decision. .  

Why do we knowingly act against our best interest? 

Why do we start a diet and four days later stand in front of the refrigerator late at night and scarf down a quart of ice cream, knowing it’s the wrong thing to do? 

One of the main reasons people self-sabotage is because their goal is simply not important enough or not stated powerfully enough for them to stay focused and change their behavior. 

Why would you set a goal, only to abandon it at the first sign of resistance? 

Abandoning a goal usually happens because;

1. The goal is poorly stated or is too general to even be a goal, or;’
2. Because the goal is not truly YOUR goal and if it is not YOUR GOAL there’s no real commitment, which means no planning, no action and no progress.

To succeed at anything you have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone and go out of your way to learn how to get what you want and then change your behaior and actually do what it takes to get it.  Often, people just aren’t that interested. 

The best way to lose weight, or reach any goal, is;

1. DECIDE what you want
2. LEARN how to get it; 3) Make the necessary changes,
3. ACT, stay focused and stick to your game plan; and;
4. NEVER SELF SABOTAGE; just say no to anything that stops or prevents you from reaching your goal.  

If you have ever tried to lose weight and failed, or if you lost weight, but gained it all back, you can find the reason why in one of these four steps.  Either; 1) your decision was not firm, or; 2) you did not have the information you needed to reach your goal, or; 3) you were not willing to do what it takes, or; 4) you knowingly or unknowingly did things that worked against your success.

If you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off, you may benefit greatly by reading this article several times and taking the time to write down everything you can think of that may apply to your personal situation.   Do this and you may be surprised at what you discover. 

In part two or The Best Way To Lose Weight, we discuss the value of specialized knowledge and I will reveal the three most important, non negotiable things you need to do to reach a healthy body weight and easily maintain that weight for life, plus the three biggest mistakes that must be avoided if you ever want to reach your goal.

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Regardless of how you choose to lose weight, you may benefit greatly by what you learn in 5 Steps To Optimal Health.  If reaching a healthy body weight you enjoy and easily maintaining that wieght is one of your goals, you will love this book and will be very happy you found it.

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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just pop a pill and the universe would obey!

Imagine… by the time you finish just one bottle of the amazing, Speak-A-Foreign-Language-In-No-Time pills, you’d be fluent.  And by the time you finish a bottle of the remarkable new, fully-patented, Piano-Virtuoso Pills, a lucrative recording contract would be on the way! 

I asked my guitar teacher about Performer-Recommended Virtuoso-Guitar Lozenges and Patches.  He assured me they work fine as long as you supplement the pills with 2 to 3 hours a day of actual practice and stick with it for five to seven years. 

The Diet Pill Approach to Weight Loss

Diet pills, including metabolism boosting pills, fat absorbing pills, and carbohydrate blocking pills are exactly like the Virtuoso-Guitar Pills, they work GREAT as long as you supplement the pills with a healthy diet, good nutrition and regular exercise, that is assuming they don’t seriously damage your health along the way.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch and the magic weight loss fairy is not going to fly by, tap you on the bottom or the belly and make the bad fat go away.

Every year billions are spent on quick fix, miracle weight loss pills, potions, powders, cookies, bars, patches and magic elixirs and every year billions are wasted.   

People drawn to the quick fix, like moths to a flame, take the product, and if they lose any weight, quickly gain it all back plus more and then start searching once again for the next and newest weight lost miracle.

No one has ever gained weight because of a shortage of diet pills in their diet and no one will ever lose weight and keep it off by taking these irresponsible, scientifically ridiculous products.  

• Metabolism boosting pills, (natural or not), stress your central nervous system and increase your risk of heart attack and stroke. 
• Fat absorbing pills are proven 100% useless and shown to damage the intestines in double-blind research studies. 
• Carbohydrate blocking pills make about as much sense as swallowing antidote so you can ‘safely’ swig down poison.

Wholesale Fraud And Deceit Is Common In The Quick-Fix Weight Loss Industry

From December 2008 to March 22, 2009 the FDA has identified and banned 72 weight loss dietary supplements tainted with “undeclared active pharmaceutical agents”, in other words prescription drugs.  Not only are the prescription drugs undeclared and illegally added to over-the-counter diet pills, the undeclared drugs are often added in FAR GREATER amounts than FDA approves as safe in the actual prescription medication. And they still don’t work .

These products do NOT produce lasting weight loss.  In fact, study after study prove the vast majority of all people taking these products do not lose any weight at all!  Of course that fun fact is never printed on the label, even though the studies are published in dozens of medical journals, some of which you can access for free online.

Every year the FDA files fraud charges against companies selling miracle-in-a-bottle, quick fix weight loss junk that promise everything and deliver nothing EXCEPT increased health risk.

Two weight loss supplement manufacturers, each doing over $50 million a year in sales, were recently shut down by the FDA.  As it turned out, both companies had completely fabricated weight loss testimonies; they used fake medical endorsements, touched up photos, and they paid radio show hosts to lie about losing weight using their products.  The scandal was so big it prompted the FCC to pass new regulations governing radio advertising.

One company sold a product that was LITERALLY made by dissolving gristle off chicken feet purchased from a slaughter house, in acid, bottling it, slapping a label on the bottle and marketing it as a miracle weight loss collagen protein drink guaranteed to speed up your metabolism and cause excess fat to melt off while your sleep! 

At best, quick fix weight loss products are a complete, absolute, total waste of money.  At worst, they may seriously damage your health.

What About Prescription Diet Pills

You’re not overweight because you diet is deficient in prescription diet pills and you will never lose weight, keep it off and be healthy taking them.

Prescription weight loss drugs are expensive, dangerous and fail to produce lasting results. 

Medical doctors who make their living prescribing drugs for weight loss are often considered charlatans by their peers because of overwhelming evidence that the “pill approach” to weight loss simply does not work.

Over 40 years of research, tracking thousands of people using prescription diet drugs for weight loss, documents that 9 out of 10 people who lose weight (not all do) GAIN IT ALL BACK PLUS MORE within a year or less after stopping the drugs.

Drug therapy ignores the underlying cause of weight gain.  Drugs promote weight loss by artificial means and ignore the real cause of being overweight.

The Phen-Fen drugs have been used in Europe for over 60 years.  Dozens of long-term studies tracking results for tens of thousands of patients show the overwhelming majority (over 90%) regains every pound plus more within 12 to 24 months after quitting the drug. 

Bottom Line: DIET DRUGS ARE DANGEROUS & DON’T WORK!  Given the 90% plus failure rate, its obvious prescription drugs fail to produce permanent weight loss. 

How To Lose Weight And Keep It Off

To lose weight, reach a healthy-attractive body weight you enjoy and effortless maintain that weight for life you need three things. 

1. Working knowledge of the basics of metabolism, in other words, what happens when you chew food and swallow… what causes you to make and store fat vs. what causes you to burn stored body fat and effortless maintain a normal-healthy weight.
2. You need a working knowledge of all the obvious AND NOT SO OBVIOUS things that can keep one person struggling with being overweight while another easily loses weight and keeps it off.
3. You need a diet, nutrition and lifestyle strategy that promotes a normal-healthy body weight, that is easy to follow and that never leaves you feeling hungry or deprived… yes it does exist. 

And of course you have to care enough to be willing to ABANDON scientifically and medically absurd approaches to weight loss and focus instead learning what it really takes to reach your goal.

To help you in this quest,  I recently published 5 Steps To Optimal Health, which covers each of the above items in simple, accurate and engaging detail.   If reaching a healthy body weight you easily maintain and becoming as healthy as you possibly can is one of you goals, I  believe you will really enjoy the book 5 Steps To Optimal Health, it could change your life.

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Hydrogenated oil is made by heating vegetable oil to over 400 degrees in the presence of an aluminum or nickel catalyst and bubbling hydrogen through the super-heated oil for about six hours. 

Besides leaching toxic metal into the oil, doing this changes the molecular structure of the oil in such a way that it will never spoil, thereby extending shelf life and eliminating the need of refrigeration of both the cooking oil and products made with the oil.

The number one source of transfatty acid in our food supply is hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oil, which is found on COUNTLESS products including nearly all commercial baked goods, and literally thousands of food products from margarine, non-dairy coffee creamer and frozen dinners, to chips, French-fries, and most main courses on most fast food menus. 

Transfatty Acid - What Is Trans Fat

The process of hydrogenation distorts the molecular structure of the vegetable oil and produces a TRANS FATTY ACID.  

A trans-fatty acid molecule is distorted in shape and size; the molecule is an extremely odd shape, it doesn’t fit in with other molecules in your body and disrupts the natural flow of things.

Other molecules that don’t fit naturally into the pattern of human biochemistry include things like pesticides, synthetics and drugs; these substances are designed specifically to DISRUPT the normal flow of electrons and they accomplish this most efficiently. 

All hydrogenated oil and all partially hydrogenated oil contains transfat, not because it is added, but because transfat production is a natural and unavoidable result of the process of hydrogenation.

Hydrogenated Oil, Partially Hydrogenated Oil and Transfatty Acids Damage Your Health

Molecularly deformed, trans-fatty acids interfere with the work of essential fatty acids and disrupt the production of important bio-chemicals, (prostaglandins), that regulate everything from blood pressure and kidney and heart function to inflammation and immune system strength and much more.

Prostaglandins are involved in regulating every organ in your body.  Anything that inhibits EFAs from doing their job or inhibits prostaglandin production is EXTREMELY BAD FOR YOU and hydrogenated oils do both. 

One reason many face serious health concerns is; they unknowingly consume food that slowly and methodically destroys their health. 

It’s not like getting hit by a truck.  It’s more like dropping the frog in the warm comfortable water and slowly turning up the heat.  Before the frog knows it… his goose is cooked!

Hydrogenated Oil And Transfatty Acids Cause High Cholesterol

Trans fatty acids can increase blood cholesterol levels by up to 15% and increase blood triglyceride levels up to 47% very rapidly after hydrogenated oil is ingested.  These are dramatic negative increases and that could have devastating consequences depending on other factors.  Do the French fries really taste good enough to put yourself at that kind of increased risk?

Avoid HYDROGENATED OILS and all foods that contain them because hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oil are essentially nothing but transfatty acid in a bottle.  

Hydrogenated Oil And Transfat Negatively Affect Your Heart & Blood Pressure

Trans fatty acids are extra sticky and sticky fats can cause blood platelets to become extra sticky and stick together, thickening the blood, increasing blood pressure and increasing disease risk.

Trans fatty acids take longer to break down inside your body than regular fats and that can be a big problem because fat is the primary fuel source your heart runs on.  

If your diet is high in trans fatty acid, your heart cannot quickly access fuel during periods of increased activity, stress or crisis. 

Not getting the fuel it needs lowers heart performance and can have serious consequences anytime there’s increased demand on your heart, which could be anytime at all.

Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard’s School of Public Health reports “Trans fat is the largest amount of artificial chemical in our food supply”.   Dr. Willett and Dr. Ronald M. Krauss of the American Heart Association played a big role in getting the FDA to require trans fatty acid content be listed on product labels.

Because fast foods and commercially baked goods are typically loaded with trans fat, Dr. Willett and others recently prevailed with the FDA to require trans fat content to be listed as part of the nutrition information printed on labels, boxes, cartons and so on.  

Dr. Willett believes parents are concerned about their kids’ health and should know if food is loaded with health-destroying fat.

In a victory for the consumer, several states, now mandate the removal of transfat-containing oils from the cooking process. 

Government involvement is a two-edged sword…  I don’t know about you, but I don’t want some fat senator telling me how to eat.  But at the same time I applaud the fact that increased government scrutiny has raised consumer awareness on this issue.

As a passionate capitalist, I’m repulsed by government interference, which is both morally corrupt, special interest driven and pitifully inefficient. 

However, as a nutritionist and someone who understands how hydrogenated oils and transfat damage health, I say hydrogenated oil and transfatty acid consumption is responsible for more deaths annually than all forms of drug abuse combined, and because of this, I wouldn’t be upset if these oils were legislated out of existence.   They really are that bad.

For more on hydrogenated oil and partially hydrogenated oil, including a more complete look at all the ways hydrogenated oil and transfat gets into the food we eat, take a look at this article. 

Hydrogenated oil and transfatty acids are abundantly bad for you and seriously interfere with your ability to reach a healthy body weight and easily maintain that weight.  If losing weight, keeping it off and becoming healthy and strong in every way measurable is a topic of interest for you, you will enjoy my new book, 5 Steps To Optimal Health.