“How To Lose Weight” should probably be the most-searched query on the internet. Weight loss seems to be on everyone’s mind and a large population looks out for shortcuts and actually falls for the hype and hoopla surrounding fat burners and superfoods that promise to just melt away all extra fat. There’s a lot of false information on the internet and media about “fat burning” and products that claim to do so, but in reality, straightening out one’s diet and exercising consistently will do the magic much more effectively than anything that is marketed in a powder or pill form. Also, to lose weight successfully, science says you should stop believing in diet fads that have no research to back them. So, let’s go through them one by one:
1. Eating Fortified Food/Enriched Food Can Help you Get Lean: Certain packaged cereals, fruit juices, milk packets, wheat flour, and other ready-to-eat foods claim they have been enriched and fortified with vitamins and minerals which can help us get lean. However, the truth is that most of them are synthetic nutrients that have been added after the food has gone through extensive processing and has lost its natural nutrients. These synthetic nutrients that have been added at a later stage to the food product do not effectively get absorbed or processed by the body, and can cause health issues. Without natural fiber, these foods get digested quickly, raise blood sugar sharply, and all the exc...