The process of weight loss is not a mystery anymore. Through proper diet and exercise, it is possible to put the body into a calorie deficit where more calories are burnt than consumed. When there is a lack of energy, the body releases stored fatty acids from the adipose tissue to burn it up to release energy. The physiological process of fat burning happens when stored fat is released from the adipose cells into the blood to source energy. The good news is that certain foods can burn stored fat, prevent fat absorption, and also increase metabolism. When you consume excess calories, they get converted to fat and are stored in fat cells. Excessive carbohydrates can be stored as glycogen in the liver and muscle, get converted to triglycerides in the liver, and then transferred to adipose tissue for storage. Fat is stored inside the fat cell in the form of triaglycerol. Now, here comes the interesting part – the stored fat is not burned right there in the fat cell, it must be first freed from the fat cell through certain pathways (controlled by hormones and enzymes). As we have mentioned above, some foods can stimulate the fat cell to release triaglycerol into the bloodstream in the form of free fatty acids and they get transported through bloodstream to tissues where the energy is needed. When free fatty acids are released from the fat cell, the cell shrinks in size. So, we don’t actually burn fat cells – through diet and exercise, we drain out fat cells, an...