The truth about fat burners and healthy alternatives to lose weight fast

Why another article on fat burners, healthy alternatives to lose weight fast and diet? Sure there are plenty! Just browse your local book superstore and you’ll soon be overwhelmed with the number of books that guide, prescribe, and sell the latest fat loss tips, information, research, ideas, potions, pills, and promises.

I find much of the information on weight loss contradictory, confusing, overwhelming, and can ultimately do more harm than good. For example, we have the “rice diet” and the “fruit diet”.

Some say that fruit turns into fat, while others will tell you to only eat fruit before noon. Fruit can turn into fat compared to what, donuts? I do not think so! I have never seen anyone sit down and eat too much fruit, say three apples, a pear and a banana. Yet we all, at some point or another, sit in front of the television and devour an entire pizza, a box of cookies, or a mound of ice cream.

Does fruit make you fat? You are smart, you tell me. For those who prescribe eating fruit only before noon, I say this: “What if you work the last shift and don’t wake up until noon, then what?”

Of course, the low-fat diet, the incredible dietary revelation pioneered by Pritikin, works. Or if?

The low-fat approach to weight loss prescribes reducing dietary fat intake to less than 10% of total calories. The food industry has responded by making nearly all food products available fat-free or with little added fat.

Now, we can eat fat-free pretzels, fat-free potato chips, fat-free ice cream, fat-free pizza, fat-free tuna sandwiches, fat-free cookies, and the list goes on. My question is this: With so much to choose from, why are Americans, on average, fatter than ever?

Some weight loss books blame your laziness. The authors of these books sound something like that. “Exercise burns calories, so getting enough exercise will keep a person leaner and promote fat loss in everyone.”

Sorry. While exercise can help, it’s not the whole story, the end of it all.

What you eat, the total number of calories you eat, and the types of foods you eat also have an effect on fat storage. Some people can lose a lot of weight with exercise, but others should rely more on diet. Plus, there are more gyms, health clubs, resorts, personal trainers, exercise machines, and gadgets than ever before. So what’s the scoop? How come we are fatter than ever?

Sure, there are plenty of amazing and incredible bodies, but in general, the population is pretty sloppy. I know we are failing the obesity test when I constantly see fat kids in the malls, schools, and church. Sure, there were some beefy kids when I was young. Every school had its little fat kid who was the butt of jokes and picked on, but now there are so many more!

There are fat loss pills, creams, drinks, gurus, prescription pills, appetite suppressants, and therapy. There are late night infomercials, gadgets, clinics, medical weight loss programs, Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Slim Fast, MetRX and Guarantee. And if that’s not enough, we’re bombarded with stars who have always appeared slim, fit, and fit, touting everything from a thigh-toning machine to an indoor-skating device.

I’m sure you’ve also seen those ab machines on TV. I’ll tell you a secret.

First, the models used for the abdominal machines probably never used these machines in their lives. Second, the infomercials imply that you will be able to achieve impressive abs using the ab machine. I highly doubt that will happen.

To get the abs that the model has, you need to follow a proper diet to remove all the fat covering the abdominal region and allow the abs to shine. Next, you would have to build the abs with exercise.