Statistics reveal that 75% of American citizens are overweight and 40% are obese. But finding an overweight diet can be a daunting task, and it’s difficult to know where to start. From Atkins to South Beach, low-fat to low-carb, which is the one for you?
It may be hard to accept, but the facts give ever-increasing evidence: A diet that works for one person may not be the same fat-burning diet you need. It’s not that the certain diet is no good – it’s just not the one for you.

Don’t give up, because there is a fat-loss diet for you that is simple, quick, and doesn’t involve starving yourself to death. But first, let’s take a quick look at diets for the overweight.
Genetics are responsible for each person’s body shape – short and chubby, tall and slim, big hips and broad shoulders, compact and muscular. Genetics determine these overall characteristics in the same way genes determine eye, hair and skin color.
The good news is that genetics do not decide whether or not you will be fat. Not all women can have a supermodel’s slim figure, nor can every man be a Mr. Atlas, but you can still arrive at a weight with which you can be comfortable and rest.
Some of the reasons why people become overweight are as follows:
1. Low metabolic rate. It’s difficult to burn food calories, so any excess is stored as fat.
2. Comfort eating. Strain and stress in other areas of one’s life can lead to overeating.
3. Hormones lack their normal balance.
4. At meal times portions are simply too big.
5. Eating too much “diet food” (i.e. low-fat, low-carbohydrate and sugar-free foods).
6. Toxins are allowed to accumulate in the body.
7. Eating too late in the day, when the body is too inactive to burn off food, which instead converts to fat.
8. Sensitivity to growth hormones. Meat and dairy products contain residual growth hormones, on which animals were fed. Once humans ingest these hormones, it leads to increased body fat.
9. Skipping meals.
10. Too many diets. Hopping from one to another has adverse effects on your metabolic rate and makes fat-burning diets difficult to follow.
11. For all sorts of reasons, the ingredients in many foods simply encourage the storage of extra calories as fat.
The good news! Easy fat burning suggestions:
Armed with the information above, we can suggest a few key points by laying out the following seven easy steps:
Step #1: Drink water when you wake up – about 8 ounces of distilled, bottled or filtered water (not from the tap).
Step #2: Eat a large breakfast about three-quarters of an hour after waking. Organic fruits, such as apples and bananas, and sugar-free whole-grain bread with plain yoghurt. Eat additional meals of tuna, lamb, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, raw honey, wild salmon etc.
Step #3: Drink distilled, bottled or filtered water during the day: eight glasses are suggested.
Step #4: Exercise by walking for an hour each day – go at your own pace without stopping, preferably outside in the open-air.
Step #5: Don’t eat any later than 6 o’clock in the evening.
Step #6: Treat yourself to a “candida cleanse”. Candida is an excess of yeast in your colon that can give rise to all sorts of health conditions. Find a good candida cleanse preparation or ask your healthcare advisor for advice.
Step #7: Cleanse your colon. This purges the digestive system, which can become blocked and slow to function in many overweight people. Find an appropriate cleanser or ask your healthcare advisor about one.
As increasing numbers of Americans are growing obese; they are deeply affected by health problems, and their emotional health and self-esteem is being undermined.
There are positive, practical, effective ways to tackle the problem, fat-burning diets that work to take off the fat and keep it off. With the seven easy steps outlined above, there’s no reason why you can’t start today!

Arnold Rosh, fitness expert

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