Archive for February, 2011

We are constantly bombarded with ads that promise to reveal the secret foods that will burn fat and turn us into lean, mean muscle machines. From fitness magazines to teen entertainment magazines, they all have diet sections touting the correct foods to eat.

The Fat Burning Furnace is no different in that area. Rob Poulos, developer of the system, lists some of the foods that should be included in the average diet to increase fat burning. Foods like fresh garlic. Garlic is known to boost metabolism. Edamame, which keeps your body from storing fat, and ginger, which increases metabolism by 20 percent are foods to incorporate into your diet.

Other diet foods include low-fat milk and yogurt, and cheese. However, it’s the calcium these foods contain that helps improve your body’s composition. Fiber is miracle food for burning fat according to studies, as are the catechins contained in green tea. Eggs, high in protein, are another great fat-burner.  Protein takes more calories to break down than other foods. Nuts, salmon, lignans, and vinegar are also foods that help boost the body’s ability to burn fat.

In effect, according to the Truth About Abs, non-foods, such as soda pop, donuts, cookies, etc. are extremely addictive. These type of foods offer very little or no nutrition at all and, in all actuality, they make the body use its own stores of nutrition to digest and assimilate the food. You are, in effect, depleting yourself of more nutrients, which creates a need for more nutrition. Thereby, you will be caught in the vicious cycle of “you are what you eat” and the “you can’t eat just one” syndrome.

The reason for this is that the brain can actually sense, as it enters your mouth, if there is any nutrition present. If there isn’t, the brain turns on its signaling system making you keep eating until it finds nutrition. Essentially, when you eat these types of foods, your blood sugar plummets and your brain will then signal that you are hungry again. These foods actually cause an addictive cycle just like alcohol and drugs, which is why diets that work completely avoid these foods, or at least severely limit their consumption.