Sometimes we get so taken in by advertising and headlines, when we hear of natural weight loss products (there are a few doing the rounds now ramping up for the post Christmas rush) it is easy to believe the hype. We want to believe it; we don’t want to be putting unnatural products in to our bodies after all. Advertisers know this and they realise that what gets us every time is the word natural.

                                                                      Natural can mean many things:

• The product has come directly from nature
• The main component of the produce has come from nature
• Something in the product is from nature

The products are linked in the advert to some claim of how this product can produce weight loss. This leads us to thinking that this product can give us natural weight loss.

Not so natural weight loss

Well the product may have come from nature, but the only way it can induce weight loss is to prevent us properly digesting what we eat or artificially increasing our metabolic rate neither of which sound particularly healthy. Even so it is certainly not natural to be consuming these products and any resulting weight loss won’t be natural. Even if some berry or root from some tropical island or deepest jungle did produce weight loss, that would only be natural weight loss for the inhabitants or that place if it was part of their natural diet.

Obviously natural weight loss is what we should all be aiming for in our endeavour to slim down, natural weight loss being weight that we lose naturally, not that which comes from consuming some product unnatural to us.

7 natural weight loss tips

1. Eat what you know to be healthy
2. Live an active lifestyle
3. Take regular aerobic exercise
4. Limit your most inactive times (TV)
5. Burn up more energy than you consume
6. Drive less and walk more
7. Substitute fresh produce for processed foods

Ps. What makes us concentrate on consuming something when what we want is to lose weight?