Is that little bottle of vitamins you keep in the cabinet making you fat?
Are you increasing your waistline every time you select foods that have been fortified with minerals?
Are you gaining weight even though you are taking herbs
to burn fat?
Relying on food supplements to replace healthy foods
may be causing your body fat problems, according to Ron Brown, author of
The
Body Fat Guide.
"Supplements are intended to supplement food, not replace
eating healthier food," says Brown. "Yet, I believe most people do not use
supplements this way. They think that conveniently swallowing a few tablets
gives them license to eat foods high in empty calories. As a result, they
end up taking in a higher than normal amount of calories with fewer nutrients,
and that leads to even more eating and body fat gain."
Brown backs up his view with reports showing that most
people recognize the importance of healthy eating, but few are actually eating
healthy.
"In my view," he says, "the reliance on supplements to replace healthy eating
may account for much of this gap."
And even if you don't pop many vitamin and mineral
supplements directly into your mouth, Brown says you are probably consuming
many foods that have been "fortified" with these supplements for you by food
processors.
"Whenever you process nutrients out of food and try to put some of them back
again, you destroy much of the value of the original food," says Brown. "Just
removing fiber and water alone concentrates the calories in our food and
causes us to swallow calories too quickly. The best plan is to try to balance
your diet with foods that have not been altered or processed by the food
industry. Clearly, people are a long way from that!"
So what can you do to get your daily supply of nutrients
without relying on supplements and without increasing your calorie
intake?
"You don't have to eat like a rabbit," says Brown. "Just try to cut down
your intake of processed foods and increase your intake of fresh, raw fruits
and vegetables in as close to the natural state that nature intended you
to eat them. Then, make sure you stay within your daily calorie allowance,
which you can determine with my book,
The
Body Fat Guide."
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