Well, check out the excerpt from Mike Geary’s very interesting nutrition program called “The Fat Burning Kitchen” below:

“…Not many people know this fact, but a natural fat found in ruminant animals called Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) is actually a natural form of trans fat. However, CLA is FAR different than the artificial trans fats from hydrogenated oils that are so deadly and that you hear all of the negative information about. CLA is actually one of the only healthy trans fats in existence and has a different chemical structure than artificial trans fats.

CLA is a natural form of healthy trans fat that occurs in the fat on the meat, and in the dairy from ruminant animals such as cattle, bison, deer, goats, sheep, kangaroo, etc.  CLA in natural form has been shown to help in burning off abdominal fat and also maintaining or even building lean muscle, as well as cancer prevention. Great stuff huh! Keep in mind that CLA diminishes in meat and dairy when the animals were fed grain.

Warning: Although the data in studies is conflicting, I generally do not recommend CLA supplements as they contain an artificially created form of CLA that is a different CLA isomer compared to the natural CLA isomer that’s found in meats and dairy from ruminant animals.  The CLA isomer found in CLA supplements is thought by some researchers to possibly have negative effects in the body and is more similar in chemical structure to an artificial trans fat.  This is however, controversial and not a lot of studies have been done. But from a common sense standpoint, the natural form of CLA from grass-fed meats should be more beneficial to your health than the artificial form of CLA.  The only form of CLA that I personally believe is going to benefit your health and help to reduce body fat is the natural CLA isomers from grass-fed beef, bison, venison, etc or from grass-fed raw milk or cheeses.

Also, grass-fed meats and dairy contain 3-5x the CLA content of grain fed meats, so avoid your typical grain-fed grocery store meats and choose grass-fed!   

So that is the reason why I focused more on red meats such as grass-fed beef and bison during this 23-day cutting cycle instead of chicken, turkey, or fish — because the extra CLA can really help in accelerating fat loss and preserving lean muscle…” 
There you have it… there actually IS such a thing as a healthy trans fat… bet you didn’t know that!

This was an excerpt from Mike Geary’s super-popular nutrition program co-authored with an extremely knowledgeable nutrition expert named Catherine Ebeling.

The program is called “The Fat Burning Kitchen”, and it’s a must read if you want to know exactly what to eat to be lean and healthy for life, and which foods are sabotaging your efforts.

Ingredients

2 4-ounce 1/2-inch-thick steaks, such as rib-eye, trimmed of fat

1 tsp chili powder

1/2 tsp kosher salt, divided

1 tsp extra-virgin olive oil

2 plum tomatoes, diced

2 tsp lime juice

1 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro

Directions

Rub both sides of steak with chili powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt.

Heat oil in a medium pan over medium-high heat. Add steaks and cook, turning once cook until it reaches your desired level of doneness. Cover steaks with foil and let rest while you make the salsa.

Add tomatoes, lime juice and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt to the pan and cook, stirring often, until tomatoes soften, about 3 minutes.

Remove from heat, stir in cilantro and any accumulated juices from the steaks. Serve steaks topped with the salsa.

(Makes 2 Servings)

Ingredients

1/2 cup fat-free frozen vanilla yogurt

1/2 cup ice cubes

1/2 cup orange juice

1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

Put the mugs in freezer to chill. Combine all ingredients and blend in blender on high until smooth. Pour into chilled mugs and serve. Note: May substitute pineapple juice for orange juice.

For someone being obese, heath problem risks are generally directly tied to this syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is just a term for a cluster of conditions that tend to occur together. The presence of these conditions is a pretty good indicator about future health.

For instance, someone with metabolic syndrome is going to have a much higher chance of heart disease, stroke or diabetes than someone who doesn’t have the condition. For people who have one or two of the conditions that make up metabolic syndrome, their risk of these serious diseases is still a little less than someone with a full-on case.

The conditions that are generally present in metabolic syndrome include:

- Obesity. People with metabolic syndrome are generally obese, often with much of their body fat centered in their stomach, giving them an “apple” shape.

- High blood triglycerides (fat).

- High blood pressure.

- Low HDL cholesterol levels. This is high-density lipoprotein, also known as the “good” cholesterol. Having a low good cholesterol level has been found to be more dangerous. than having a high “bad” cholesterol, or LDL (low-density lipoprotein) level.

- Insulin resistance.

A person can have one or two of those conditions without having metabolic syndrome. But their risks for developing the other conditions is very high. In fact, having just one of the conditions listed above makes it very likely that you’ll develop the others.

Being obese, health problem risks are elevated, but there are some factors in metabolic syndrome that a person can’t control. A family history of diabetes, for instance, puts a person at greater risk of developing metabolic syndrome.

Age and race are also factors. Asians and Hispanics tend to develop metabolic syndrome at a greater rate than other races. And the older a person gets, the greater the risk of developing the syndrome.

But for the most part, the conditions that make up the syndrome and the syndrome itself are preventable. And there are no special drugs or treatments required to prevent or reverse metabolic syndrome.

The first recommendation, whether you want to prevent the syndrome or reverse it, is to eat a healthy diet. Choose whole foods like whole grains, fruits and vegetables and avoid carb-laden, starchy processed foods. Don’t drink sodas or other sugar-rich beverages, but opt for water instead.

The next step is to get some exercise. Walk for a half an hour or so each day. That’s all it takes. This along with a healthy diet can help you lose weight, the third thing to do to defeat metabolic syndrome. Being obese, health problem risks including that of metabolic syndrome are elevated if you smoke, so quit smoking and you’ll be on your way to preventing or reversing the disease.

In this Cabbage Soup Diet Review, I’m going to tell you the good and the bad of this popular fad diet. In the plan, you eat as much of the soup as you want plus certain foods on certain days. It is a seven day meal plan and the authors claim you can lose up to 10 pounds in just a week. This Cabbage Soup Diet Reviews’ goal is to help you decide if you want to try the plan.

The cabbage soup diet is most often attributed to the Mayo Clinic, although they have issued a number of releases saying that they had nothing to do with its development and do not endorse it. If you have a major hospital in your area, you may have heard of it by that name. For instance, Loma Linda University is a major teaching hospital in one area and people in the vicinity call it the Loma Linda Diet.

In this Cabbage Soup Diet Review, I’m going to tell you what I like about the program and what I think is lacking. It is a good diet in some limited circumstances, but if you are looking for lasting weight management, it’s not the right choice for you.

There are two factors that make this program so attractive. The first is that if you stick to the plan, you will lose weight up to 10 pounds in just one week. The other plus is that you won’t have to be hungry at all. That is because you get to eat as much of the soup as you want. You may get tired of the soup, but you won’t go hungry.

The downsides of the program are also twofold. The first is that the diet is boring and many people find the food bland. You are only allowed certain foods on certain days. For instance, on one day, all you can have besides the soup is bananas and skim milk. On the other hand, on another day you get up to 16 ounces of steak and all the vegetables you want.

The other problem with the diet is that it is extremely low in calories. That means that it is not sustainable over time. In fact, even people who endorse the cabbage soup diet recommend that you stay on the diet for one week and then wait at least one week before starting the cycle again.

You will average about 900 calories on the diet. This cabbage soup diet review notes that that’s not enough to keep your body going. Therefore, you will be forced to burn fat. That’s a good thing. But, if you stay on it for more than a week, your metabolism will start to shut down, reducing the fat-burining effects.

Also, the main weight loss from the cabbage soup diet comes from water loss.

In short, my cabbage soup diet reviews points out that if you need to lose weight for a one off situation like a wedding, reunion, or just a big date, this may be a solution for you. But if you are looking for a long term solution, this is not the program for you.

And that’s my cabbage soup diet reviews.

The fact remains that for any diet to work a person needs to change how they approach food. By this it is meant, how is food consumed? How is food prepared? For a diet to really work, a person needs to change how they cook their food, how they eat their food, and how they use their food. Many people have unhealthy eating habits so they have gained weight. They need to change their eating habits to lose weight and to keep it off.

Learning to change the eating habits is only half of the dieting system. The other half is implementing exercise. Yet this article is about the right diet of foods for extended weight loss. So keep in mind this is only the first half of the weight loss solution.

There are foods that need to be removed from the diet in order to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight. The food that fried should be avoided as much as possible, the added fats in the food are stored in the body and turned to fat when you do not burn the additives.

Eating foods high in protein such as whey, lean beef, chicken, tuna, turkey, salmon, and eggs help with weight loss when added to the diet. The fatty acids in the fish are beneficial for a healthy diet including stronger bones, teeth, nails, and hair.

Remove dairy products that are high in fat content. Try to replace the fattening foods with a low fat dairy product to limit the consumption of the fat in the dairy products. This also includes limiting the intake of the high fat snacks, which add pounds and inches.

Add essential fatty acids foods that include nuts, seeds, and flax oil to your diet. They are great sources of the essential fatty acids that are needed by the body to function properly. Eat the nuts and seeds as a snack instead of the chips or other unhealthy snacks.

Add water to your diet. You should consume at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day. The water helps to hydrate the body and to flush out harmful toxins. Water will also help to make you feel fuller and eat less too.

Add a good quality multi-vitamin to your daily diet. The vitamins will help your body with the essential nutrients your normal diet does not contain.

Changing your eating habits to a healthier diet will help you lose weight and maintain the desired weight you want to have.