How to lose fat: Two foods to avoid

One of the main problems with nutrition nowadays is that every person gives you a different insight about what should and what should not be eaten, about what is good for your health and what is not. It is a problem because rare are the people who really know what they are talking about, including doctors, and the problem of some people that don’t know is that they do not shut up and leave their ignorance for them, but they communicate it to others.

Some people even generalize and distribute their ignorance in the form of diet books, that become widespread and that a lot of people begin to follow blindly, only to discover later that all their efforts to lose weight or fat were in vain because they didn’t understand some rules.

Among these rules is one of utmost importance because it is among the most ignored ones. It is about 2 kinds of unsuspected foods that are to be reduced or deleted from your diet. These are 2 items that most people have always considered as healthy. These are the following:

- Wheat products: By wheat product, I mean all wheat, including all kinds of breads, complete or whole or brown, cereals, pasta and so on. In addition to the fact that a large number of people has some degree of intolerance to gluten, sometimes without suspecting it, the human body in general was never meant to eat large quantities of wheat, and never adapted to that as well.
Until 100 years ago, the wheat in bread and products didn’t constitute a major part of the human diet. This consisted more in meats, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.

- Fruit Juices: Even though fruits in themselves are very good and very healthy for the body, when the juice is separated from the rest of the fruit, the fiber and other beneficial components of the fruit are left and not absorbed, which makes the fruit juice at best a high calorie sugary mixture.
Moreover, drinking the fruit juice alone doesn’t satisfy your appetite needs, and you are left with the same hunger feeling you were feeling before drinking, craving more carbohydrates, whereas the whole fruit slows down the blood sugar response.

From the above, two points are to be retained, especially for people looking to lose weight or fat and feel better:

- Stop or reduce wheat from your diet. Try it to begin for 2 or 3 weeks, and notice how you will feel better and lose weight. If you feel you cannot resist your carbohydrates cravings, realize that it is only in your head, and that this need is more psychological than physical. Soon without even realizing this need will disappear by itself, if you persist. In addition to feeling better, you will start losing body fat much faster, and you will get rid of migraines and other indigestion related ailments that has plagued you for so long

- Stop or reduce drinking fruit juices. These make you fat. Instead eat the whole fruit and take benefit from the full fiber and energy boost that these give you

Living healthy is not a theory, it is a practice. Unfortunately, we are not educated enough, we have been misinformed, and we have been taken into a vicious circle of bad habits, either by our parents or by the society around. Still, if we engage in learning about the truth of the matter, we can get back to the right track. This is not an easy task, but believing is achieving.