A couple of years ago, a professor at Kansas State University went on a diet high in Twinkies, Doritos and Oreos. If you don't recognise these American brand names, be rest assured that they don't grow organically and naturally on trees or vines. They are instead among the worst kind of junk our modern civilisation has produced as food. The amazing thing about the professor's diet though is that he lost weight, a considerable 27 pounds worth (just over 12 kg).

He proposed before embarking on this extreme diet, that it wasn't the type of food consumed that mattered with regard to weight loss but the quantity of calories that really counted. Simply put, if your daily calorific intake is less than your daily requirement for energy you will lose weight. Conversely if your daily calorific intake is greater than you need you will store the excess calories as body fat.

So it is possible to eat really high quality food and put on weight and also to lose weight by eating a diet high in junk food. But we don't eat just for weight management – we eat for energy, we eat to supply and support our organs with the correct nutrients for optimal function and for minerals to support our bones and cells. We also eat for other reasons, to nourish our souls and for social reasons. Sadly we sometimes eat when we are feeling down or emotionally vulnerable so getting the diet just right, with so many variables to contend with can be a challenge.

Any diet to be successful at providing the right nutrition for our optimal well being needs a little planning. It needs to have an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables and a source of protein to support muscle and other organs. It needs to reflect an awareness that a diet high in carbohydrate may have too many calories which could end up being stored as fat. It needs to satisfy hunger pangs. High carbohydrate foods seem to satisfy quickly but also seem to wear off quickly and we find ourselves snacking. Remember too many calories get stored as fat.

Weight management therefore needs to be about getting the balance between calorific input and physical activity about even for maintaining the same weight. For weight loss the balance needs to be tipped in favour of less calorific input and more physical activity. The stumbling block is very often appetite control. Fortunately there are a number of dietary supplements that assist with appetite control, such as the herbs Hoodia, Carruluma and Decaffeinated Green Coffee Bean Extract.

Decaffeinated Green Coffee Bean Extract in addition to helping control appetite also helps the body burn fat stores more efficiently as an aid to successful weight management. Controlling the appetite helps you to make wiser food choices and reduce portion sizes, factors that are important to accomplishing weight management favourably.

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