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Are you following a low carb diet?  Have you hit a plateau that you just can't seem to get passed? Do you realise some low carb diets are very bad for your health, even though you may have lost some weight with them? The gurus of the diet industry know how to exploit your negative emotions. They understand your depression, guilt and despair. And what do they do? They use your emotions against you. The people who run this industry blame you for the failure of their diets. They say that you failed to follow their diet correctly. They never once concede that they're peddling a dodgy product that never stood a chance of working. The truth is: their diet failed you. The Illusion Of Success With Low Carb Diets Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets are supposed to bring about massive weight loss. And for a while they 'succeeded' for many people. People lost lots of weight by cutting out bread, pasta and potatoes. Instead, they tucked into huge steaks and piles of bacon...

Thanks to modern food technology, foods like the defunct Hostess Twinkies can stay on the shelf for longer periods of time. In fact, some food products are so packed with preservatives that you'd swear they will outlast the next Ice Age. Seriously. Modern foods are the product of lots of high-tech wizardry and tinkering. I am not so sure these developments are all good. Take, for example, the case of starchy foods. Since these foods, in their natural form, contain a lot of fiber, they don't last too long on the shelf. Enter modern food technology and these foods now last a long time in storage. How come? Most of their fiber and nutrients have been stripped off. In fact, modern commercial flour has had so much of its nutrients ripped out through mechanical processes that flour millers are compelled to 'enrich' their flours by putting some nutrients back in. Otherwise, modern flour is an empty food with very little nutritional value. Regardless of these efforts by the...

The formula that will help you lose weight naturally is really simple - you need to get fewer calories with food and burn more calories with exercise. However, implementing this strategy into practice is not that easy mainly because there are small details which can get in the way. Consider the seemingly small but serious mistakes made by people who want to slim down and learn how to avoid them. Mistake 1: Having only 3 meals a day When you eat food less frequently, there are huge insulin spikes and drops. These lead to hunger pangs which make you eat more once you get your hands on food and this naturally pushes your calorie intake up. The solution is to snack between meals in order to lose weight more quickly and effectively. You should have at least two snacks -one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The foods for snacking should be billing and have few calories. Some of the best options include fresh fruit and vegetable smoothies, low-fat plain yogurt, whole grain bage...