Do you know why Rati Beauty is against highly-processed and refined foods in their weight loss programs" It’s because highly-processed food come packed with a lot of calories which get processed easily inside the body and quickly get stored as fat cells. It may appear to us that our body processes all types of food in the same way, whereas in reality, even though macronutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins go through the same digestion process – the way they are utilized, stored, and affect weight loss/gain is different from each other. Refined carbs have largely empty calories that get converted into sugar rather quickly, and an excess of such calories, then gets stored into fat cells. As we have mentioned before, all calories are not created equal, in fact, some of them help the body to burn fat, through a process called thermogenesis. You can certainly boost weight loss by including thermogenic and metabolism-boosting foods; however, in the end, what matters is a healthy diet and exercise, without which it is not possible at all to drop weight or get healthy in general.
What is Thermogenesis"
Every morsel of food raises heat in the body in order for digestion to take place, but certain foods raise  more temperature compared to others. Thermogenic foods increase energy expenditure in the body through the process of thermogenesis where the body actually burns more calories to breakdown such food, converting these calories to heat form...