Food Diet

The Two Diet Foods That Are Making You Fat

Executive summary about Diet Foods By Deane Alban

If you want to lose weight, and especially lose troublesome belly fat or love handles, you need to know about the two “diet” foods that may be making you fatter.

People drink diet soda thinking it is less “fattening” than regular soda. While it does have fewer calories, the artificial sweeteners in diet soda have been shown to stimulate your appetite, increase your craving for sweets, and increase your fat storage hormone levels. So diet drinks actually make you eat more calories in the long run and have your body storing those calories as fat.

Studies have found that there is a direct correlation between drinking diet soda and obesity. Ironically, overweight people believe they are overweight SO they should drink diet soda. But the truth is that they are overweight, at least partially, BECAUSE they drink diet soda. Drinking sweet drinks all day contributes to what I call “chaotic eating” and a higher consumption of junk food calories.

Do you eat snack bars, energy bars, or meal replacement bars? Almost all of them have high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as one of the first ingredients. When you consume HFCS, your body doesn’t register that you’ve eaten anything, so it doesn’t satisfy your hunger at all – it actually makes you hungrier. HFCS does this by inhibiting secretion of two important hormones. The first is leptin, which tells your body to burn fat, not to store it, and gherin, which tells your body that you have eaten and you are full.

In case you are considering replacing diet soda with regular soda, bear in mind that soda is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup so will also have the negative effects of stimulating your appetite, increasing your craving for sweets, and increasing your fat storage hormone levels, too.

Considerations When Selecting Diet Foods

Executive summary about Diet Foods By Michael Mize Russell

In reality, a food that works well in a diet can be almost anything as long as it isn’t loaded with too much fat — especially of the saturated variety — or an excess of calories. Most effective dietary foods are those that contain the proper amount of carbohydrates, protein and “good” fat (i. E. Unsaturated fat). When constituted properly, such a food may be low in calories but high in health.

Remember, “no fat” does not mean “no calorie.”

Outside of most fruits and vegetables — which any weight loss program or organization will tell you can be eaten in almost any amount — one should take care to count the calories of most self-proclaimed diet foods. This is because even a food that is actually appropriate for a diet can, if eaten into large an amount, actually cause a person to gain weight and not lose it.