Canola oil comes from a genetically engineered plant called the rapeseed plant. While the rapeseed plant in itself is a naturally occurring plant, it is poisonous and all the plants that are used to produce canola oil have to be genetically engineered to lower the amount of harmful toxins in them. The marketing deception around canola oil is huge and there are even very well know medical websites that promote the so-called heart healthy benefits of this oil. Much of what appears in the mainstream media is usually pushed by some industry that will benefit from favorable reports regarding their products. Canola oil is no different. It is promoted by the food industry. In fact, the name canola oil is a completely made up word that is just about as engineered as is the oil. The name comes from the term Canadian oil low acid. So much for originality.

Canola oil is a junk oil because it is also highly refined. Because of the genetically engineered nature of the rapeseed plant canola oil must be highly refined by heating, using chemicals, solvents, petroleum and other caustic products. So much for a good and healthy oil.

Another reason canola oil is not healthy is because it is an unstable oil because of the way it is produced. It breaks down when heated and becomes a saturated oil instead of a polyunsaturated or an unsaturated oil and that is where it then becomes the kind of fat in your body that is bad for your heart. Oils like cold pressed virgin olive oil are not as susceptible to breaking down when heated because they are no highly refined. One more final lie of the canola oil industry is that in some cases this oil can already contain trans fats way above the amount claimed by the industry. Researchers in major universities have found canola oil containing trans fats to be many times what the Canadian government has claimed.

Canola oil is bad news, and it’s probably a good idea to stay away from it. You can read more about the dangers of canola oil here.

The secret to Christmas weight loss is to bring your own snacks to the office, or wherever you hang out every day, instead of eating all the rich things brought in by your friends and coworkers. Fudge, cookies, cheese, pies, brownies, dips, chips and more are usual workplace fare from right now until the first of the new year. You may even be looking forward to that special goody brought in by the best cook you work with, even though you know is is fattening as all get out. Well, what would happen if you had a healthy snack ready when your friend Maggie brings in her killer bean dip with that contains 10 grams of fat per scoop? You would be ready to resist the temptation to pig out on something that is extremely unhealthy and you would be on your way to Christmas weight loss and winning that battle for years to come.

We have a bunch of healthy recipes that you can make that will help you fill up and resist the fattening foods. On that link you will find all kinds of snacks, desserts, trail mixes, energy bars, cookies and more. The trick is, when you eat foods that are more nutritious than the sugary foods offered around the Christmas holidays, you body is getting the fuel that it needs. When you a filled up on the proper fuel, you then won’t crave he junk that is bad for you.

Try it. Eat only healthy foods, and plenty of them, around this time of year and see if you don’t have some weight loss around the holidays. You will be glad you ate healthy when everyone else is going on a diet on January 2nd and you are already way ahead of the game.

Farm raised fish was supposed to be the solution to the oceans and rivers being over fished, but the problem is that this is the most unhealthy fish you can buy today. That’s because most of these kind of fish are swimming in their own waste products their entire lives. The trick is to eat wild fish whenever you can, but there are also fish that even in the wild contain high levels of mercury.

Read on to find out what the most toxic fish are…

When you understand how the egg is made up then you will understand the truth about egg yolks and egg whites too. Let’s think about this for a minute, where does the little baby chicken grow? It grows where the nutrition of the egg is, and contrary to popular belief, that would be in the yolk.

Shocked? Don’t be… Read on to find out more about egg yolks and how much nutrition they really do contain.

Larabars often have only two or three ingredients, are raw and contain crushed nuts and fruit as their base. They contain nothing artificial or any chemical preservatives. This means that the ingredients have not had all of their nutrients processed out of them. Once you find a healthy energy bar that is truly healthy, they make great on the go snacks. Making bars like these are not all that difficult either. But if you choose to buy these kinds of snacks, make sure you thoroughly read the ingredients for junk that the food industry thinks is necessary to put in our nutrition.

Healthy energy bars also won’t sabotage your day by adding unnecessary calories or chemicals. Many of the best products on the market are made from raw or organic ingredients. You won’t need to wonder, are they healthy or not? They don’t have the sickening sweetness of other brands and provide plenty of fiber to help you feel full longer.

The less processed a food is, the easier your body can absorb and digest it. The chemicals stimulate your body’s hormones and often hold onto the fat, making it more difficult to reduce overall body fat, particularly belly fat. Be sure to read the labels to get the best nutritional boost from your health bar. It isn’t that hard to do and will make your weight loss a lot easier if you aren’t eating all the junk.

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You can’t read the front of the package to tell the difference in these bars because they want you to think they are actually good for you, you’ll need to read the list of ingredients on the label. Skip the beautiful natural looking farms and natural looking ingredients on the front of the label and read the back to see what kind of junk these food manufacturers are really putting in them. Once you know what to look for, you’ll see that most of them are not even remotely nutritious or even good for you.

In addition to containing a lot of sugar and artificial sweeteners and probably some kind of chemical preservative, they don’t taste good and often have an unpleasant after-taste. Ingredients are listed from highest to lowest content. If the first ingredients include corn syrup, sugar, or hydrogenated oils and end with artificial colors, flavors and sweeteners, they are no better for you than the candy bars in the machines or down the candy aisle in the grocery store. The more processed the ingredients are, the fewer health benefits they contain. Simple is best.

Healthy energy bars taste better and provides the vitamins and minerals you thought you were getting from the other bars. Many of the best health bars have just a few ingredients. Read more about these kind of bar in an upcoming post.

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Every person on the Oprah show had read the book, (I guess that was a requirement to get tickets for this particular episode) so Geneen was preaching to the choir sort of, but those that end up losing weight as a result of reading the book and owning the insights in it will look back on this time on Oprah and reading the book as a big turning point in their lives.

Geneen says that once you get your relationship with food right, everything else will fall into place. That’s sounds like good advice because many women, and men as well, eat for many different reasons. Some of those reasons may be to eat just to satisfy your cravings, or to give yourself a boost because you are feeling down for various reasons, or because you may have other things in your life that you are covering up for.

For whatever reason you eat and if that eating is causing you to be overweight, the answer according to Geneen Roth is to just let go of the struggle as she did several years ago. If you forget about the struggle and eat with a healthy attitude, then weight loss will never be a problem because you aren’t using food for anything else other than to give your body the nutrition it needs.

The book, Women Food And God took up the entire hour of the Oprah Winfrey show on Wednesday and offered many tips for women to figure out why you may be eating the way you do.

Once you get the food thing right, the rest of your life will fall into line. Now, this isn’t magic because getting in touch with yourself and figuring out why you do what you do when it comes to food may be a difficult thing to go through as seen by some of the video testimonies shown on the Oprah Show. Watching some of those videos on Oprah was painful because you could just see what the women featured were going through

Many women and even men, eat to cover up things in their past so food is used as a drug according to Geneen, instead of using it to feed your body with nutritional fuel as I like to call it.

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There is also a crash of blood sugar levels once the juice is digested. This leaves you hungry and craving more carbs. Whole fruits are entirely different from fruit juice. Whole fruits are more satisfying and provide your body with the nutrients it needs to sustain itself. Sugar levels are low and the fiber allows you to digest it slowly. This results in fewer calories being consumed. You don’t need weight loss supplements or gimmicks and gadgets to have fab abs. Cutting foods that make you fat, like wheat and fruit juice products, from your every day diet can help you feel better, reduce common health issues and allow you to lose weight faster.

If you are going to drink fruit juices, then at least get your juice from a real fruits that you juice yourself. You can use a conventional squeeze juicer that you use by hand or that you use as an attachment to a food processor. You can even use something like a Champion Juicer to get juice from carrots and other root vegetables. This is the kind of juice that is bursting with nutrition that your body needs.

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Wheat products include most bagels, breads, cereals and pasta, just to name a few. They usually contain gluten. This is a unique type of protein found in barley, rye and wheat.  A significant percentage of people have some degree of intolerance for this type of protein. It has only been the last 80-100 years that wheat products have been a dietary staple. Before that time, our digestive system was used to a steady diet of a very limited amount of meats, vegetables, fruits and nuts. Some people who remove wheat from their diets for a few weeks lose weight faster and feel better than they have in years.

And canned juices, even if they state they are 100% real juice, are not really what they purport to be. Many of these juices have been processed, heated and manipulated so they no longer contain the nutrition that the real or original fruit does. Plus when you add the preservatives and so called “natural flavorings” which are really a code word for added MSG, then your healthy canned or bottled juice is really just a concoction that doesn’t do all that much for you besides add extra calories to your diet.

Come back for our next post and read more about foods that make you fat.

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One of the main advantages of diet meal plan is that people with busy lives may not have the time and can’t focus on nutrition and learning how to eat right. They can choose one of the many plans available that have been designed with healthy nutritious meals. Another version of a meal plan includes healthy, easy to prepare meals that are low in fat and calories. Although some measuring of serving amounts may be needed, the nutritional content has already been calculated. Menus may be created for one to two full weeks, with a shopping list ready to print.

These meals can be expensive and may not be suited for your particular nutritional needs, so make sure you know what you are getting by doing your research before you commit to a prepared diet meal plan for the long term. If you want to lose weight you may have to get a more specialized meal plan instead of just what’s readily available for those that are only looking for convenience. Of course, you also want to have a plan once you lose the weight you need to and decide to go off your pre-prepared diet meal plan. You may not be able to afford to have someone make all your meals for you over the long run, so make sure you have that thought out even before you get started.

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