Beware Of ‘Quack’ Foods That Promise Fat Loss

Consumers are wasting billions of pounds on ‘quack’ foods that promise to help them lose weight, a nutritional expert has warned - Daily Telegraph

A recent article in the British Medical Journal by Prof Michael Lean of the University of Glasgow warns of the millions of dollars that is being wasted by consumers who purchase ‘low fat’ foods.

He said “marketing foods as ‘low fat’ and ‘helps lower cholesterol’ have to be substantiated under current rules and labeling foods as preventing or treating disease is illegal, but ‘huge numbers’ of such claims are still being made overtly or implied.”

He went on to say that “only appropriate diets, exercise, licensed drugs such as orlistat and sibutramine along with bariatric surgery which includes stomach stapling and gastric bands, are safe and effective.”

Without doubt, I must agree with what the Prof says.

Also to be borne in mind is the fact that there are people out there who somehow assume that by making up their meal with a few of these foods, they are going to loose weight.

Adding on a Diet Coke and requesting for low fat cheese on your double cheeseburger is not going to help you loose weight.

The only way is to get on to a diet plan, get some exercise, set your goal to succeed in your plan to dump that weight and believe in yourself.