If you’re one of the great many Americans struggling to control your weight, you’ve probably had about all the diet advice you can possibly deal with.  Unfortunately, most of it is dead wrong, particularly if you’ve taken any dietary advice from the FDA or your general-practitioner physician.

Why is that?  Without venturing into politics, the FDA is chaired by agricultural business veterans who have an interest in selling grain, seed, and pesticide to consumers to keep the agribusiness lobby content.  And if your physician is like most physicians, he or she graduated from both college and medical school without taking a single nutrition course.  Yikes.

So it’s no wonder that there’s not much decent dietary information available to help you start down the path of clean eating.  It’s just hard to find long-term diets that work.  To boot, you’ve probably heard that some mystical formula exists surrounding a dietary miracle called “fat burning foods.”  Almost.  But not quite.

Foods don’t burn fat.  Your body burns fat.  But certain foods create the metabolic conditions conducive to your body utilizing fat as its energy source, rather than dietary sugars.  If you guessed that the kinds of foods that encourage your body to get its energy from fats don’t contain much in the way of sugars, you’re absolutely spot-on.  In fact, the biochemical pathways by which refined sugar intake leads to obesity are very well documented.  But they’re not very well publicized.

Unfortunately, we load our factory-produced foods with high fructose corn syrup and other evils, leaving our highly efficient metabolic fat storage mechanism – honed over thousands of years of hunting and gathering – completely overwhelmed by the amazing glut of available food energy.  What does our body do with this excess energy?  Packs it away for a rainy day.  On our rumps.

Interested in creating fat burning conditions in your body?  Here’s the extremely short but powerful list of fat burning foods: eat meat and vegetables, seeds and nuts, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar.  That’s it.  Nothing cosmic.  I lost 42 pounds and 70 cholesterol points following this simple dietary prescription.

Is your goal to lose 20 pounds in 2 months time in preparation for a wedding perhaps? Do you think you still have enough time to engage in activities such as, jogging, aerobics, or dance classes that require a lot of time and patience in order to lose weight? Or maybe you are thinking of some branded diet pills which claim to be effective and endorsed by some of known personalities? If you are drawn and convinced by their testimonials about how effectively these pills work but still afraid to use them because it may lead to unhealthy or negative side effects, maybe its worth to turn your sight to one of the very popular diet presently—the low carbohydrate diet.

Low carbohydrate diet is a fast weight lose remedy basically designed to lower down your carbohydrate intake. So food like rice, bread and pasta are to be avoided. The human body needs to consume carbohydrates since they are the main source of energy which keeps our mind and physique active to perform daily tasks. Expert says that every time a person reduces his carbohydrates intakes, it forces the body to use stored fats as an alternative to produce energy and help it do the bodily functions it performs. Thus resulting to significant loss of weight.

Low carbohydrate diet will not just help you lose 20 pounds and keep you in shape but it will also keep your mind and body healthy. According to the latest survey 2 out of 10 deadly diseases are actually because of excessive carbohydrate consumption. Most people who are diagnosed of these deadly diseases are advice by doctors to eat food rich in proteins and not more of carbohydrates in order for the stored fats to be maximized and be converted as energy.

Just be disciplined in following a low-carb diet and you will be walking on that church aisle in perfect good shape.