Lose Weight By Avoiding These Foods

     The following is a list of foods that you must avoid if you desire to achieve rapid weight loss or even maintain your weight at its current level. You need to make a concerted effort to avoid these foods in order to make progress in attaining your weight loss goals.

Doughnuts, Pastries
These are some of the worst foods that you can eat. They are deep fried, made with refined sugar, and full of saturated fats/trans fats. They have a no nutritional value and not only make you gain weight but, in addition, they can have adverse health consequences.

French Fries, Potato Chips
These are sodium-loaded, enzyme-dead foods. Additionally, recent research studies now show that they are high in acrilimide, a known carcinogen. French fries have three hundred times the acrilimide content allowed by the U.S. EPA for one glass of water. This is an indication that they are toxic to your body, as well as full of fat, with a typical order of french fries containing in excess of 500 calories.

Juice and Fruit Drinks
Most fruit drinks contain 10% or less real fruit juice and mainly consist of artificial flavoring and sugar (sucrose). If they contain sugar, corn syrup, or high fructose corn syrup, go out of your way to avoid them.
Fried Fish and Fried Seafood
Frying adds insult to injury, making them full of trans fats and not a great combination for healthy weight loss. Broil your fish and avoid the trans fats.

Raw Clams, Oysters
Shellfish are also scavengers that scour the ground for anything and everything. Toxins are concentrated in shell fish. The toxins then become concentrated in your fat cells. If your fat cells contain a lot of toxins, the fat becomes very difficult to lose. Additionally raw clams and oysters quite often contain harmful bacteria.

Lunch Meat, Smoked Meat, Hot Dogs, Bacon, Sausage
These are all processed meats, not quality meat. They are a mix of fillers, sodium, and nitrites that are used to preserve and cure meats. If you want to examine caloric content, how about 130 calories for one strip of bacon and 13 grams of fat?
It has been shown that nitrites are a cancer causing agent. Too much sodium leads to heart disease, and the fillers are synthetic chemicals that are hard on the digestive system.

Alcohol
Alcohol actually suppresses fat burning. When you consume alcohol, your liver has to detoxify it immediately. This takes priority over carbohydrates, fats, and protein. Because fat is the most difficult for your bodyt to metabolize, it gets pushed down the chain.
Alcohol is often consumed with a meal, taking in its excess calories. Alcohol has the second highest calorie content next to fat, with seven calories per gram compared to nine calories per gram of fat. When you consume alcohol, your body will convert more of the calories you ingest into fat. To quickly lose weight, you definitely need to avoid alcoholic beverages.

Soda
Soda is a major contributor to obesity in the western world. Studies show that drinking soda increases the risks of diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, tooth decay, caffeine dependency, and nutritional deficiencies. The major ingredients in soda are:
- Phosphoric Acid: Mixes with the hydrochloric acid of the stomach and interferes with digestion. It is also responsible for decreasing bone mass by causing a loss of minerals from the bones.
- Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup: Liquid sugar is particularly harmfu, because a lot can be consumed in a brief time, making your blood sugar get totally out of whack.
When insulin levels rise rapidly, fat burning decreases and fat storage increases. This leads to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, premature aging, heart disease, and, of course, weight gain. Studies show that people who drink sodas do not cut back on the regular foods they eat. This adds at least 200 calories a day, or 1,400 calories per week, to their intake.

Diet Soda, Diet Drinks
Diet drinks give you all of the bad effects of drinking soda, plus artificial sweeteners that have been shown to alter brain chemistry, increase cravings, and cause cancer. The main artificial sweetener used is aspartame. It has numerous adverse health effects including:
- Brain tumors
- Birth defects
- Diabetes
- Emotional disorders
- Epilepsy/Seizures
If you ask me, anything that has this many life altering side effects is worth staying away from. There have been entire books written about the dangers of aspartame. If you go to Medline on the internet, you can find hundreds of research articles on this subject. Diet sodas can actually cause you to have a craving for more food, even though they contain no calories in and of themselves. After all is said and done, you will poison yourself and still not reduce your weight.

Pizza
Pizza is one of my most favorite indulgences. Unfortunately, it is far from healthy, especially if you go with the meat lovers' version, which is a smorgasbord of processed meats: sausage, pepperoni, ham, Canadian bacon, and bacon. Additionally, pizza is loaded with sodium, fat, and refined flour dough. This makes for a high calorie meal that you might as well just pack straight onto your mid section.

Ice Cream
Ice Cream is loaded with calories, fat, sugar, and dairy, which contains lots of hormones and antibiotics. Ice cream is one of the most unhealthy foods that you can eat. It also contains artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, emulsifiers and stabilizers. All of these, combined, make ice cream one of the most fattening foods on the planet.

White Bread, Pasta
White bread and pasta react, in the body, like white sugar, which is refined and processed, with no nutritional value. Bread gets a bad rap for putting weight on people. It really isn't the bread, however, it is the type of bread. White bread is produced from white flour, a refined carbohydrate, just like corn syrup and sugar. This equates to empty calories with no nutritional value at all. Whole grain breads are a much better choice.
Sprouted grain breads are the healthiest. Stay away from breads that are enriched, bleached, or white in color. Consume more whole grains.

Sugary Breakfast Cereals, Candy
This is a great way to start out your day with barely any nutrition at all. Cereal is mostly white sugar in a box. But it contains vitamins!! That is the joke and makes for great advertising. The truth is that the quality of the vitamins listed on the cereal box is poor.
Basically, any major brand of sweetened cereal is simply vitamin-fortified sugar. If you buy cereal, look on the ingredients label for whole grain and avoid white flour or high-fructose corn syrup. Candy is straight sugar and some fat. This will go right into your bloodstream, mess up your hormone levels, and sabotage your fat-burning capability for a few hours.

Vegetable Oil, Shortening, Margarine
These aren't substances that you would actually eat alone; at least, not in most cases. They are used in many fried foods and baked goods and contain trans fats.

Trans fatty acids not only cause you to gain weight, but they also lead to rapid aging, cause joint inflammation and predispose you to heart disease, and cancer.

You don't need to deprive yourself of the 'bad' foods all of the time. This article has been created as a guide, to make you cognizant of which foods will further your weight loss program and which foods will diminish your chances of achieving your weight reduction goals. If you consume the 'bad' foods on a regular basis, it will make it very difficult for you to lose weight. A coronary event waiting to occur would be eating a hamburger on a white bun with French fries and a milkshake. This combination of high sugar, high fat and high calories puts your body metabolism into a terrible state. Your insulin levels spike, fat storage increases, and fat burning decreases, with the result being body fat storage.

Now we have a good idea of what we should and should not eat. However, there are a few other concerns related to our diet that impact our metabolism. When we eat, how much and how often we eat, the contents of the food we purchase, and yes, I almost forgot, another extremely important component of our diet, water.

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