It is true; diet soda will put fat on you.

It’s common knowledge that carbonated drinks, also know as “soda pop” may be one of the worst things you can consume…the horrid chemicals, the high fructose corn syrup that makes your gut fat, and a number of health related issues that this beverage promotes, yet these drinks continue to be popular among those who are unconcerned about their health and well being.

It is amazing that so many people mistakenly believe that drinking “diet” soda will help them lose weight. Actually, it’s common for me to hear people extol the virtues of their healthy diets and say they only consume diet soda.

Okay, let’s correct this mistaken assumption.

There isn’t ONE THING that is even slightly healthful about the consumption of diet soda. I have read a number of studies that indicate people who are devoted to drinking diet soda gain even more weight than those who drink regular soda.

A study that was held at the University of Texas for a period of eight years found these results.

The author of the study had this to say,

“What didn’t surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity,” Fowler states to WebMD. “What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher.”

“There was a 41 percent increase in risk of being overweight for every can or bottle of diet soft drink a person consumes each day,” says Fowler.

We were already aware that regular soda was really bad for our health, and today we’re seeing reports from studies that say diet sodas are even more fattening than the “bad” stuff!

The factors that contribute to this occurrence are numerous and complex.

One underlying factor involves the sugar substitutes that are used in diet sodas, causing a detrimental hormonal response, whereby the body increases the production of a fat storage hormone and subsequently promotes a desire for refined carbohydrates and sweets following consumption of the diet soda.

Another factor arises from faulty reasoning; people have been drinking only diet sodas, so they think they can eat other foods with impunity and end up taking in more total calories.

I’ve consistently maintained this, but what it boils down to is that people who are concerned about their health should avoid all types of soda (and anything that contains artificial sweeteners) all of the time, except for the odd occasion where there is no alternative.

What can you substitute for diet sodas?

Plain water, perhaps with a slice of lemon, and iced tea that is unsweetened provide excellent alternatives, and there are a lot of tea choices, including oolong, red, black, white, or green etc., so be creative. Also, teas provide you with a large array of antioxidants that have anti-aging properties.

The dirty truth about canola oil

Yes, it’s true that canola oil is high in monounsaturates, but let me explain why canola oil is anything but “healthy”.

Canola oil is made from something called rapeseed. Rapeseed actually had to be bred over the years to reduce the percentage of a problematic component of rapeseed, which is erucic acid.

Important note on canola oil “urban legends”: There is a problem with most websites that DEFEND canola oil, saying that internet “urban legends” on the dangers of canola oil are unfounded. The problem is that these websites that defend canola oil ONLY talk about the issue of erucic acid. The issue of erucic acid IS an urban legend, because erucic acid has been bred out to very low levels over the years, so it is a non-issue.

However, these websites that defend canola oil are barking up the wrong tree because they don’t address the issue of the processing of canola oil and oxidation of the polyunsaturated component of canola oil, which is what makes it unhealthy for human consumption. THAT’S the real issue that they either don’t understand (because they are not nutrition experts) or are simply ignoring.

Let’s look at the REAL issues with canola oil:

Canola oil typically ranges between 55-65% monounsaturated fat and between 28-35% polyunsaturated fat, with just a small amount of saturated fat.

While we’ve been led to believe that high monounsaturated fat oils are good for us (which they are in the case of virgin olive oil or from unprocessed nuts or seeds), the fact is that canola oil has more detriments than it does benefits.

one of the biggest problems with highly processed and refined vegetable oils such as corn oil, soybean oil, and yes, even canola oil, is that the polyunsaturated component of the oil is highly unstable under heat, light, and pressure, and this heavily oxidizes the polyunsaturates which increases free radicals in your body.

The end result of all of this refining and processing are oils that are highly inflammatory in your body when you ingest them, potentially contributing to heart disease, weight gain, and other degenerative diseases.

The reason that extra virgin olive oil is good for you is that it is cold pressed without the use of heat and solvents to aid extraction.

Canola oil, on the other hand, is typically extracted and refined using high heat, pressure, and petroleum solvents such as hexane. Most canola oil undergoes a process of caustic refining, degumming, bleaching, and deoderization, all using high heat and questionable chemicals.

Does canola even have trans fats?

Even worse, all of this high heat, high pressure processing with solvents actually forces some of the omega-3 content of canola oil to be transformed into trans fats.

According to Dr. Mary Enig, PhD, and Nutritional Biochemist, “Although the Canadian government lists the trans fat content of canola at a minimal 0.2 percent, research at the University of Florida at Gainesville, found trans fat levels as high as 4.6 percent in commercial liquid canola oil”.

And this is the crap that they are marketing to you as a “health oil”!

As you can see from the details above on how canola oil is processed, it is barely any healthier for you than other junk oils like soybean oil or corn oil. The bottom line is that it is an inflammatory oil in your body and should be avoided.

The only canola oil that might be reasonable is if you see that it is “cold pressed” and organic. Most canola oil is NOT cold pressed or organic, so you might as well choose oils that you know are healthier. Like extra virgin olive oil or virgin coconut oil

If You Are Serious About Losing Your Tummy Fat and Developing a Six-Pack, There Are Five Truths You HAVE to Know

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1. A lot of the “healthy foods” that are sold today are skillfully marketed junk foods that may lead to additional fat around your middle; however, the food industry knows the right buttons to push to get people to spend their money.
2. For a flat stomach and a six-pack, focusing on sit-ups, crunches, and abdominal machines is the worst approach. We will discuss exercises that really ARE effective after a moment.
3. Tedious and repetitive aerobic exercise isn’t an effective approach for getting rid of fat and revealing the six-pack underneath the flab. To improve your results by a factor of ten, I’ll demonstrate the kinds of workouts you should do.
4. No more throwing your money away on worthless “fat-burning” pills or other supplements that are supposed to “melt” the fat off your body. There is a specific classification of natural nutrients that will give you much better results. We’ll discuss this class of natural foods and what they can do for you.
5. All of the infomercials that exclaim the benefits of ab-loungers, ab-rockers, and the like, are trying to rip you off. Ignore the infomercials. The chiseled physiques in those ads were NOT created by using the contraption that was being advertised; their bodies were sculpted through hard work that consisted of GENUINE workouts and sound nutrition. You will discover how they do this and the approach that is really effective.


Let’s first talk about the foods, especially a couple of the worst, that will put fat on your body.

You may be surprised when you hear what these two foods are, because the majority of people are under the impression that they are “healthy”.

I won’t cover the high fructose corn syrup or trans fats, because you’ve been there and done that already, and I won’t waste your time on things you already know. We will, instead, move onto those foods that you may not realize will add rolls of fat to your mid-section.

Wheat products are the first on the list and include muffins, bagels, crackers, cereals, a lot of breads, etc. “Whole wheat” foods are included on this list of foods that will make you fat.

In the first place, wheat gluten intolerance is move prevalent than you may have previously realized, and the gluten in other grains can cause issues, as well. People with celiac disease are most prone to gluten intolerance, but the fact that the majority of people aren’t anatomically equipped to consume wheat in large amounts may come as a surprise to many. The digestive organs in human beings have never become accustomed to the consumption of large quantities of wheat.

It is just in the last two millennia that wheat has become a part of human diets, and much more so in the past eighty to one hundred years. In the hundreds of thousands of years preceding the introduction of grains, human diets consisted mainly of vegetables, fruits, meats, seeds, and nuts, and the digestive systems of these hunters and gatherers evolved accordingly.

Nutritional research studies have indicated that after cutting wheat from the diet for 14 to 21 days, people will begin to feel better and lose weight, and the results have been consistent. Often, as well as shedding fat at a faster pace, their digestive systems calm down, and the bouts of indigestion and the headaches they have experienced for years go away. Skin problems have been known to disappear after wheat is gone from the diet.

The second food on the list of most fattening foods is fruit juice, which will come as a surprise to many.

Don’t get the wrong idea here; I do not promote eliminating carbs from the diet. In fact, the majority of fruits are HEALTHY. BUT, isolating the juice from the fiber and other nutrients in fruits and consuming just the liquid, which is calorie-intensive and full of sugar, is not the way fruit was meant to be eaten.

Drinking the fruit juice alone (orange juice and apple juice are the most common in western diets) means that you are missing out on the fiber, which will satisfy your hunger, and consuming only the sugary juice will leave you craving even more sweets. In addition, the fruit fiber slows the rate at which the sugar in fruit is released into the blood stream when you eat it, unlike the juice.

The result…large quantities of fruit juice will put fat on you. Conversely, the consumption of whole fruits with the fiber intact will promote a well balanced, highly-nutritious diet, assuming the remainder of your diet consists entirely of whole foods that have not been processed.