Unique Dietary Trick to Boost Your Metabolism

Metabolism-Boosting Dietary Secrets

I just finished a big meal with my family of ham, yams, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and ice cream & cake as dessert... Yeah, I know... how could a fitness professional like myself ever consider gorging on such a huge calorie-dense meal?

What if I told you that YOU can still eat your favorite foods while simultaneously shedding body fat like crazy... Yes, it's true... but only IF you understand how to manipulate a few KEY aspects of your diet.

Today I want to introduce you to a unique dietary trick that actually allows you to eat your favorite foods while simultaneously boosting your metabolism so that you can shed off body fat easier. It involves a little bit of rotation of foods in your diet but is actually quite easy and fun to do once you get it right.

With the holidays here this time of year, this trick actually allows you to manipulate your daily food choices so that you can still enjoy whatever you want during the holiday gatherings, and if you do it right, you won't gain weight.

In fact, if you do this right, you'll actually boost your metabolism and make it easier to burn body fat.

Let me be clear about something... by using this unique method, you do NOT need to starve yourself, overly restrict your food intake, or try to live on nothing but chicken, broccoli, and salad.

Remember, if you do this right, you can actually enjoy most of your favorite foods every week.

My friend and colleague Jon Benson came up with this unique dietary system with the help of Jan Hauser. I have to say that it's brilliant what they've come up with. See for yourself below...

http://FavoriteFoodsDiet.com

Jon and Jan were both obese years ago. Over the past four years, they perfected a System that shows you how they went from obese to "cover model"
fit and still eat their favorite foods.

Not "once a week" either -- they INSIST you eat delicious food frequently and without guilt or worry.

>>> Even better, they never count a single calorie!

They get to eat pizza, burgers, ice cream, and more...and still drop the lbs!

This is not a pill or a scam...this is science applied to the real world.

The science: you take advantage of the fact your body prefers a change of pace and can respond by burning ugly fat.

The real world: no one is going to eat salad and tuna every day for the rest of their life in order to shed bodyfat and feel good again.

Simple, right? Common sense!

You absolutely MUST HAVE a diet-plan you can live with for life.

And that's what this is.

Even better: through our special website below, you get this new System at half price for a limited time only:

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Enjoy!

Don't be lazy... be lean.

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer

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Is Saturated Fat Actually Good For You?

I've written many times in the last couple years about the mistaken beliefs in society about saturated fat and the false perception in the media AND with MOST health professionals that saturated fat is bad for you.

If you've seen in some of my articles, I've even showed you why saturated fat can even be GOOD for you in some cases, despite every health/fitness professional in the world just accepting the false belief that it's bad for you.

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to FINALLY see a big name publisher have some guts to publish an article about why everyone in the world may be wrong about their beliefs about saturated fat.

I received my new issue of Men's Health magazine over the weekend (Nov issue), and they have a huge 6-page article in there about the faulty research in the past about saturated fat, and some new emerging research that is showing why it may actually be more good for you than you would believe.

I've got to give them credit... the article was VERY well researched and put together beautifully to summarize where the studies in the past have gone wrong, and why recent studies are showing that everyone may have been wrong for the last 5 decades about saturated fat.

I'd highly suggest you read the entire article if you can. If not, I'm going to try to give you a quick summary of the findings here since it was a long article...

First of all, did you realize that although doctors, nutritionists, fitness professionals, and the media all have told you that it's a FACT that saturated fats are bad for you, this "FACT" has actually never been proven!

It's actually not a "fact" at all. It was a hypothesis! This goes all the way back to a flawed research study from the 1950's where a guy named Ancel Keys published a paper that laid the blame on dietary fat intake for the increasing heart disease phenomenon.

However, there were major flaws to his study. For one, in his conclusions he only used data from a small portion of the countries where data was available on fat consumption vs heart disease death rate. When researches have gone back in and looked at the data from all of the countries, there actually was no link between fat consumption and heart disease deaths. So his conclusions were actually false.

Second, his blaming of fat intake for heart disease was only one factor that was considered. There was no consideration of other factors such as smoking rates, stress factors, sugar intake, exercise frequency, or other lifestyle factors.

Basically, his conclusions which blamed heart disease deaths on fat intake were really just a shot in the dark about what a possible cause may have been, even though all of those other factors I just mentioned, plus many others, may be the bigger cause.

Unfortunately, Keys study has been cited for over 5 decades now as "fact" that saturated fat is bad for you. As you can see, there certainly is nothing factual about it.

Since that time, numerous other studies have been conducted trying to link saturated fat intake to heart disease. The majority of these studies have failed to correlate ANY risk at all from saturated fat. A couple of them made feeble attempts at linking saturated fat to heart disease, however, it was later shown that in those studies, the data was flawed as well.

Do we actually have evidence that saturated fat may actually be good for you instead?
Well, let's consider a few examples...

Did you know that there are several well known tribes in Africa... the Masai, Samburu, and Fulani tribes... where their diet consists mostly of raw whole milk, tons of red meat, and cows blood? Despite their very high saturated fat intake, they display extremely low body fat levels, and heart disease to natives of the tribe is virtually non-existant.

Now most critics of this example will say that it must be related to superior genetics... however this is false, as when they studied tribesman who had moved out of their native lands and started eating more modern day diets, their blood chemistry skyrocketed with heart disease risk factors.

This is true of certain pacific island countries inhabitants as well. Several studies have shown that certain pacific island nations had VERY high intakes of total fat as well as saturated fat from tropical fats such as palm, coconut, and cocoa. Despite super-high intakes of saturated fat, these island natives were typically very lean and heart disease was virtually non-existant.

However, when researchers followed up with islanders that had moved away from their native island and adopted a typical western diet, the heart disease factors were through the roof.

In fact, did you know that although saturated fat intake does increase your LDL bad cholesterol, it actually increases your HDL good cholesterol even further, hence improving your overall cholesterol ratio, which has been proven to be more important that just total cholesterol level (actually total cholesterol is an almost useless number... inflammation is the REAL problem, but that's a whole different topic).

Another fact worth noting in favor of saturated fat...

Saturated fat is comprised of various different types... the 3 most common types are stearic acid, palmitic acid, and lauric acid.

Stearic acid is found in animal fat and cocoa in higher levels. Research continues to show that stearic acid has no negative impacts on heart disease risks. If anything, it's either neutral or beneficial. In fact, your liver breaks down stearic acid into a monounsaturated fat called oleic acid, which is the same type of fat that makes up most of heart-healthy olive oil. Bet you didn't know that!

Lauric acid is beneficial as well. Not only has it been shown to increase your HDL good cholesterol levels significantly, but it is also lacking in most Americans diet and has even been shown to have some powerful immune-boosting effects potentially. It is even being studied currently in HIV/AIDS research to help improve immune function in patients. Tropical oils such as coconut and palm are the best sources of lauric acid.

Palmitic acid is the other main component of saturated fat and has also been shown to increase HDL good cholesterol to the same, if not greater extent than LDL bad cholesterol, thereby making it either neutral or beneficial, but certainly not bad for you.

So, if all of these researchers have tried so hard over the years to point the finger at saturated fat, but have continued to fail to show a correlation between saturated fat and heart disease risk, what are the REAL culprits for heart disease?

Well, here are the REAL causes of heart disease risk:

• Trans fats (artificially hydrogenated oils)... see my previous article here for a full explanation about the evils of hidden trans fats
• Heavily refined vegetable oils such as soy, cottonseed, corn oil, etc. (inflammatory inside the body, and typically throw the omega-6 to omega-3 balance out of whack)
• Too much refined sugar in the diet (including high fructose corn syrup)
• Too much refined carbohydrates such as white bread, low fiber cereals, etc
• Smoking
• Stressful lifestyle
• Lack of exercise
• Other lifestyle factors

So why does it seem that so many attempts over the years have tried to lay the blame on saturated fat... do you think it might have anything to do with the muli-billion dollar vegetable oil industry, which has taken over for cooking oils for what used to be mostly animal fats and tropical oils in decades past...

hmm... do multi-billion dollar industries really have an influence on the way data is portrayed to the public? Of course they do! And don't even get me started on the cholesterol meds industry! That's the biggest scam going these days. Again, I digress.

I hope this article has opened your eyes about the truth about saturated fat and how you've been misled over the years.

The true FACT is that saturated fat is a neutral substance in your body, and even beneficial at times, not a deadly risk factor for disease. The REAL risk factors are what I listed above.

Here are 2 more articles that are must reads about this topic if you haven't read them before...

http://www.truthaboutabs.com/dietary-fat-article.html

http://www.truthaboutabs.com/truth-about-saturated-fat.html

Til next Ezine issue... Don't be lazy... be lean.

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Founder - http://www.TruthAboutAbs.com & http://www.BusyManFitness.com

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How to Eat the Candy & Still Stay Lean

How to Enjoy the Halloween Treats & Still Stay Lean

With Halloween this week, no doubt you're probably surrounded now by loads of sugar and corn syrup laden candy everywhere you go... and now you're trying to avoid uncontrollably devouring all of the candy laying around your house, so you don't blow up like a balloon! Or you're beating yourself up because you gave in and ate half a bag of kit-kats.

Well, don't worry about it so much, as long as you consider this...

Here's a tip you can use on how to combat the typical weight gain associated with the candy binge that usually happens throughout this week from all of the halloween candy laying around. The problem is that you're tempted to indulge but don't want to add extra blubber on top of those dear abbies.

Well, I say indulge... eat as much candy as you want! Gorge yourself until you can't eat any more!

Now, here's the caveat... only do this on ONE DAY, and then go cold turkey! You will not be able to do much damage with just one single day of over-indulgence, as long as you call it quits the very next day, and you make sure it doesn't happen again for a VERY long time.

Actually, the sugar overload will spike your insulin and revamp your leptin levels when kept to only one day. This, in turn, increases your metabolic rate (but only when done very infrequently). So go ahead and enjoy, but then end it quickly, and get back to your normal healthy balanced diet.

Also, make sure to get a good high intensity weight training workout done the day after your overeating day, and you'll get one of the best muscle pumps you'll ever experience!
Same goes for the day after the Thanksgiving feast... a good high intensity weight training workout the day after Thanksgiving will give you the biggest muscle pump you'll have all year long!

By the way, if you want to try some tasty little treats that taste like dessert, but are actually made of organic dark chocolate & have a decent dose of blood-sugar controlling fiber (making them a sensible snack or dessert) check out the delicious Prograde Cravers (Peanut Butter is my favorite flavor!)...

http://natural.getprograde.com/cravers

That's all for today... If you liked todays article, feel free to fwd this email on to any of your friends, family, or co-workers that would enjoy it.Til next time... Don't be lazy, be lean.

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Founder - TruthAboutAbs.com & Busy Man Fitness .com

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