5 High Caloric Foods to Avoid

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Ever thought of dieting? Or wondered about healthy vs unhealthy approaches to weight loss? Author and health spokesperson Dian Griesel, Ph.D. recently shared related health information in a press release:

Without exception, all successful dieters—regardless of the program they use, the foods they eat or the supplements they swallow—have restricted their caloric intake below their maintenance level long enough to reach their goal,” says boomer generation health expert Tom Griesel, co-author (with his sister Dian Griesel, Ph.D.) of the books TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust (April 2011, BSH) and The TurboCharged Mind (January 2012, BSH).

“The problem with dieting is that people see it as something temporary and often quickly return to their old eating habits, which caused them to become overweight in the first place,” Griesel adds. “This approach eventually puts them right back where they were before, and often in a worse place.”

The diet business is going to keep offering new choices in order to get people to try something “new” just one more time, says Griesel; it also hopes to get some of their hard-earned cash along the way. Diet, weight loss and supplement products are a multi-billion dollar business; the marketing skills of those in the business are exceptional and their pitch always sounds perfectly reasonable. However, according to Griesel, no credible study has ever shown that anything other than caloric restriction will result in weight loss.

Griesel adds that healthy weight loss and unhealthy weight loss are separate and distinct activities. Both result in lower scale weight. However, healthy weight loss improves body composition and also improves almost all health biomarkers. Unhealthy weight loss results in unchanged or worse body composition and health. The primary and proper goal for any diet, Griesel says, is improved health and body composition with scale weight reduction as a desired but secondary effect.

In general, notes Griesel, the healthiest diet is the one with the highest nutrient density per calorie. Eliminating calorie-dense foods and replacing them with moisture and nutrient-rich food choices allows a similar or larger volume of food intake with lower total calories. This alone will often create enough of a caloric deficit to see results in addition to better overall nutritional quality.

“The only secret for healthy weight loss and lasting results is a lifestyle change, which includes proper diet and activity choices that can be maintained over a long period of time,” says Griesel.

We dug deeper for these 5 top high caloric foods to avoid as per Healthaliciousness.com:

  • Animal fats such as in lard, tallow, fish oil; they are high in saturated fats and cholesterol.
  • Purified vegetable oils like soybean, peanut, palm, olive. These contain high levels of unhealthy trans fat.
  • Salad dressings because they are packed with unhealthy fats and oils. So are fried foods, especially fried chicken.
  • Snacks and candies and other junk food.
  • Processed meats such as sausage and pâté.

It is thus safe to draw the following conclusions: 1) There are no quick fixes to achieving healthy, long lasting weight loss. 2) A healthy lifestyle change requires understanding this simple formula: If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. And if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight.

(Photo source: National Cancer Institute)

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