Are you tired of diets that only cause you headaches?
Well, put away the pills and put down the fancy equipment!
Michael Sardone, author of "The Naked Truth: Overweight, Overwhelmed and Confused".
Sardone says Americans are overwhelmed and confused by information overload - most of which is myth and hype.
We know the buzz words like: cholesterol, sugar, trans fats, calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, soy, high-fructose corn syrup, etc... but very few really know what they mean or how they affect us.
Sardone is shooting down the myths about losing weight. Here are five diet myths:
1. Americans are confused by the diet gimmicks, hyped up supplement claims and marketing propaganda: Here are a few examples of diet gimmicks you should stay away from:
· Lose one pound a day by "obeying" this rule - physiologically impossible to lose one pound of fat per day!
· Consume acai berry drink. etc., and lose weight
· Take green tea extract, etc., and lose weight
· Drink soymilk and prevent heart disease and cancer, build strong bones, etc..
· Confused by low-carb versus high-protein/fat diets, low calorie or fasting/starvation diets, etc.
Americans are unaware that diets high in carbohydrates promotes new fat synthesis (triglycerides), insulin and leptin resistance, fat/weight gain (especially around the gut) and diabetes - over the last 30-years, women have increased their carb intake by 38% and men 24%!
2. Americans are deceived by food manufactures and the FDA:· Claims made on front-of-package marketing of ZERO trans fats and sugar-free, which is very deceptive. FDA allows food manufactures to make these claims if their products contain less than 500 mg of either trans fats or sugar per serving.
· Savvy manufactures claim that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is safe because it comes from corn - what they don't tell them is that HFCS increased ghrelin (stomach hormone), and this stimulates hunger and eating - HFCS increases the production of fats (triglycerides) promoting fat storage, fatty liver disease and insulin resistance (diabetes)
· Fast-food processors high soy byproducts inside beef by calling it textured vegetable protein (TVP) - many fast food meat are made with 50% TVP
