Good foods and bad foods for buring fat

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Foods That Burn Fat – Do They Really Exist?

To most people, there is simply no such thing as a food that burns fat. And if you take the phrase literally then I totally agree – there is no one single food that will magically burn away your tummy fat just by throwing it into your meals once a day. (Just like there is no magic fat burning pill either).

But what we do have is hundreds (if not thousands) of delicious, natural, satisfying foods that create the right hormonal environment for your body to burn away its fat stores in a fast and natural way.

Look at it this way. A car with no fuel is pretty much useless. Unless you stand at the top of a hill and give it a push then it’s not going to move very far! So you add fuel to make it move (and don’t we pay through the nose for it!).

But if you put the wrong kind of fuel in your car it never runs as efficiently as it should do. It will stall, backfire, feel sluggish etc etc. And it might not even run at all if you get it too wrong!

But your car has been carefully engineered to run in a certain way, and if you keep putting the wrong kind of fuel inside it will damage the mechanics over time and shorten its lifespan.

Get it right and you’ve got a healthy car that gives you years of faithful service and (hundreds of) thousands of miles.

Now instead of the car, let’s think of our body in the same way. Our fuel is the food and drink that we consume on a daily basis. With no food, we just don’t work.

Put the wrong food inside us and we get health problems, suffer from tiredness and gain unwanted belly fat. The wrong foods are damaging our mechanics, and our inner workings.

Keep putting the wrong foods inside and we gain more fat, and the health problems become more serious. Now we are shortening our own life expectancy!

But feed us the right foods and our body works perfectly. We suffer fewer illnesses, feel alert and awake, and most importantly, enjoy a healthy lean physique!

On its own food does not “burn fat”, but it is the fuel that allows our body to burn fat, and keep it off permanently.

The WRONG Kinds Of Foods
Unfortunately for us, it is one heck of a lot easier for us to buy the wrong kinds of foods that it is to get the wrong kind of gas/ petrol. The modern, westernized diet is loaded with stomach bulging pitfalls, and foods that will cause you to store more belly fat.

Even a lot of the so-called “health foods”, marketed by the billion-dollar health foods industry, are actually junk foods that are sabotaging your weight loss efforts.

You can find all of my articles on foods that make you fat here, but for now, here is a general list of the wrong kinds of foods for fast fat loss:

Fast foods

Deep fried foods – fries, onion rings etc

Foods containing or cooked in hydrogenated oils and trans fats – lots of fast foods and convenience packaged foods

Foods high in refined sugar – cakes, candies, soft drinks

Low fat “health” foods – always check the label for added sugars and artificial sweeteners

HFCS – High fructose corn syrup, a dangerous artificial sugar substitute

Diet soda – Artificial sweeteners cause you to store fat too

Refined “white” carbohydrates – breads, pasta, rice etc

You might notice a pretty common theme here – processed foods. If you were to remove all of the above from your weekly diet, would there be anything left?

Unfortunately we have become very reliant on processed foods. And even more unfortunate is this “processing” removes a lot of natural goodness and adds artificial badness!

The only way to reduce the obesity epidemic is to shift our reliance away from processed foods.

The RIGHT Kinds Of Foods
You might be thinking that removing processed foods from your diet will leave you very short of options. But you’d be wrong.

Like I mentioned earlier, there are hundreds of natural fat burning foods out there. So at the very least there are tens of thousands of combinations primed and ready to help you lose your belly fat.

Check this out for more articles on fat burning foods, but for now here is a general list to put you in the right direction:

Free range, grass fed red meat – beef, bison, game etc

Free-range chicken and poultry

Raw dairy – unpasteurized, unhomogenized

Raw, mixed nuts

Fresh fruit and vegetables – literally too many to list

Free-range eggs

Coconut oil, palm oil

Wild caught fish

Oatmeal

Unsweetened herbal, fruit, green, chamomile, oolong etc teas

Dark chocolate – 70% cocoa minimum

And the list goes on….

You might have noticed that a lot of the foods listed above have been given a bad name for being “high fat” and “unhealthy”. What you will come to learn is that fats from natural, whole foods are good for your health, and are actually vital to burning belly flab. More about this in my Truth About Saturated Fat article.

There are tons of secret weapon foods hidden in amongst the broad category lists above. It is all about combining the foods above in a healthy, balanced nutritional program. You cannot survive on just 1 or 2 – everything needs to be balanced.

Also, there is a lot of emphasis on how you prepare your foods. Deep fried, battered cod isn’t good for you, even if the cod was wild caught. You get the picture.

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BoresEasily

Great post and thank you for adding the part regarding the natural fats and how they're given a bad rep. One thing, you mentioned fructose but not the other hidden sugars, maybe you could write another on ingredients to watch out for. Things like spotting all of the different sugars. How about, the further down the list of ingredients you find sugar or it's many substitutes the better. Also, maybe to avoid foods high in sodium.

chrisdavey

And just a point that consuming these healthy options in excess (above total daily energy expenditure) you can still gain weight

I am addicted to 70% dark chocolate at the moment :P Going to have to buy 85% stuff to slow myself down :P

Ely82010

Foods That Burn Fat – Do They Really Exist?

To most people, there is simply no such thing as a food that burns fat. And if you take the phrase literally then I totally agree – there is no one single food that will magically burn away your tummy fat just by throwing it into your meals once a day. (Just like there is no magic fat burning pill either).

But what we do have is hundreds (if not thousands) of delicious, natural, satisfying foods that create the right hormonal environment for your body to burn away its fat stores in a fast and natural way.

Look at it this way. A car with no fuel is pretty much useless. Unless you stand at the top of a hill and give it a push then it’s not going to move very far! So you add fuel to make it move (and don’t we pay through the nose for it!).

But if you put the wrong kind of fuel in your car it never runs as efficiently as it should do. It will stall, backfire, feel sluggish etc etc. And it might not even run at all if you get it too wrong!

But your car has been carefully engineered to run in a certain way, and if you keep putting the wrong kind of fuel inside it will damage the mechanics over time and shorten its lifespan.

Get it right and you’ve got a healthy car that gives you years of faithful service and (hundreds of) thousands of miles.

Now instead of the car, let’s think of our body in the same way. Our fuel is the food and drink that we consume on a daily basis. With no food, we just don’t work.

Put the wrong food inside us and we get health problems, suffer from tiredness and gain unwanted belly fat. The wrong foods are damaging our mechanics, and our inner workings.

Keep putting the wrong foods inside and we gain more fat, and the health problems become more serious. Now we are shortening our own life expectancy!

But feed us the right foods and our body works perfectly. We suffer fewer illnesses, feel alert and awake, and most importantly, enjoy a healthy lean physique!

On its own food does not “burn fat”, but it is the fuel that allows our body to burn fat, and keep it off permanently.

The WRONG Kinds Of Foods
Unfortunately for us, it is one heck of a lot easier for us to buy the wrong kinds of foods that it is to get the wrong kind of gas/ petrol. The modern, westernized diet is loaded with stomach bulging pitfalls, and foods that will cause you to store more belly fat.

Even a lot of the so-called “health foods”, marketed by the billion-dollar health foods industry, are actually junk foods that are sabotaging your weight loss efforts.

You can find all of my articles on foods that make you fat here, but for now, here is a general list of the wrong kinds of foods for fast fat loss:

Fast foods

Deep fried foods – fries, onion rings etc

Foods containing or cooked in hydrogenated oils and trans fats – lots of fast foods and convenience packaged foods

Foods high in refined sugar – cakes, candies, soft drinks

Low fat “health” foods – always check the label for added sugars and artificial sweeteners

HFCS – High fructose corn syrup, a dangerous artificial sugar substitute

Diet soda – Artificial sweeteners cause you to store fat too

Refined “white” carbohydrates – breads, pasta, rice etc

You might notice a pretty common theme here – processed foods. If you were to remove all of the above from your weekly diet, would there be anything left?

Unfortunately we have become very reliant on processed foods. And even more unfortunate is this “processing” removes a lot of natural goodness and adds artificial badness!

The only way to reduce the obesity epidemic is to shift our reliance away from processed foods.

The RIGHT Kinds Of Foods
You might be thinking that removing processed foods from your diet will leave you very short of options. But you’d be wrong.

Like I mentioned earlier, there are hundreds of natural fat burning foods out there. So at the very least there are tens of thousands of combinations primed and ready to help you lose your belly fat.

Check this out for more articles on fat burning foods, but for now here is a general list to put you in the right direction:

Free range, grass fed red meat – beef, bison, game etc

Free-range chicken and poultry

Raw dairy – unpasteurized, unhomogenized

Raw, mixed nuts

Fresh fruit and vegetables – literally too many to list

Free-range eggs

Coconut oil, palm oil

Wild caught fish

Oatmeal

Unsweetened herbal, fruit, green, chamomile, oolong etc teas

Dark chocolate – 70% cocoa minimum

And the list goes on….

You might have noticed that a lot of the foods listed above have been given a bad name for being “high fat” and “unhealthy”. What you will come to learn is that fats from natural, whole foods are good for your health, and are actually vital to burning belly flab. More about this in my Truth About Saturated Fat article.

There are tons of secret weapon foods hidden in amongst the broad category lists above. It is all about combining the foods above in a healthy, balanced nutritional program. You cannot survive on just 1 or 2 – everything needs to be balanced.

Also, there is a lot of emphasis on how you prepare your foods. Deep fried, battered cod isn’t good for you, even if the cod was wild caught. You get the picture.

Thank you for the info; however, I would never drink/eat raw dairy. It is too risky, and I don't like the taste of game meats or teas (a little green tea once in awhile is OK} But I do love vegetables and the rest of the stuff that you mentioned and I try to eat them as often as possible.