Janet Vargas - Independent Natural Health Researcher 30+ Years
Real Foods and Moderate Exercise are the BEST way to Slim and to Maintain GOOD HEALTH. Be aware that Low Fat Diets and Artificial Sweeteners are damaging. So is Strenuous Exercise – they will not help you!
Truth of the matter is, you would be far better following a few IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES, knowing what to AVOID and trying some GOOD NUTRITIOUS Dieting, than all the Fad Diets out there. Especially Chemist and Supermarket brands. Most Slimming Diets are Gimmicky – they are flawed and Cleverly Marketed through the POWER OF PERSUASION. Sometimes there is a Diet that worked for SOME PEOPLE who really gave it their Best Effort and things worked In Their Favour. Those Weight Loss Programs have a Principle of some kind working for them, not everyone responds to and they are very expensive.
The companies are happy to show you Before and After photos and tell you it works for everyone, which is a Lie of-course because different things work for different people and results vary with the individual. No-one’s bio-chemistry is the same but they are happy to tell you “Our Product Will Work For You”…… that my friend is Commercialism (enterprise for your dollar). So if you can get those misleading notions out of your mind, there is a good possibility you will get somewhere!
Watch out for Diets that tell you to have Lots of Protein (our bodies are not designed to handle Excess) ……. Low Fats/No Fats Diet OR Very Low CARBS (they are Out of Balance). We are designed to have Healthy Proteins, Healthy Fat Fighting Fats and some Healthy Wholesome Carbohydrates.
A BALANCED DIET and EXERCISE is the Way To Go and REAL FOODS are the ANSWER in place of Toxic Laden Foods that were never meant to be Ingested in the first place, but the Modern Food Industry is determined to Make Us Fat and Make Us Sick with their Highly Addictive Fast Foods and SYNTHETIC PRODUCTS they Call Food. The Television Entertainment Industry is determined to have us Sitting Down or Lounging Around all hours of the Evening and even hours of the Day if they get their way – setting us up for a SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE (where you don’t move around much) A SURE CAUSE FOR OVERWEIGHT. So is Excessive Sleep or Sleep Deprivation – there’s so much we do that throws Our Body OUT OF WACK, that upsets the Delicate BALANCE and makes us Overweight. Friends, if you address those, most times you will Take Off Weight.
UPDATE November 2025
Be Very Careful of Sweeteners of Any Kind: It seems that ALL Manmade Sweeteners disrupt Our Biochemistry in some way - even Xylitol and Stevia. Most times they are made Synthetically anyway these days and the manufacturers of Erythritol deliberately Influenced lots of Organic Companies, marketing their product as "Safe to use in Organic Foods and Beverages" even Kombucha and they were silly to take them at face value. They did not do Due Diligence. No, so be Very Careful - you can get Sick with that stuff. Plus now we're awake to the Perils of Aspartame and Splenda and Saccharine, those Companies make Lots of Other Names, so we don't know the difference.
Agave Nectar: Not so innocent "Natural" Sweetener extracted from cactus. It contains high levels of Fructose, which can increase the risk of Obesity and Diabetes, as well as cause Inflammation. HERE
That's right. Being the Outrageous Liars They ARE they resort to those measures. For the simple reason, they are under the same banner of Big Pharma Culprits. All under One Roof. Just in different buildings sometimes. Know this much for certain, they Thrive by Making people Sick. Sorry Folks, the Sweetener Industry is One Big Sickness Industry - not to be trusted, no matter the Name and Blurb.
See ALL the Names in my recent Article: Those Culprit Manufacturers RAT-TRAPS When You Reach For Products On The Shelves: UNSTOPPABLE SWEETENERS – AVOID Them ALL!!! Most Companies have 4 Names and One Company has 8 Names. They're playing games with you, they want you to be gullible!
And Friends, it gets even Less Bright when you find out the true nature of the Polyunsaturated Oils Industry, including Canola. I was getting more Data on them in different stages through the years. The latest two years ago, stating that they are the Most HEAVILY Ultra-Processed Oils Foods out there. In fact, the term Industrialized is now the Classification they are referred to as by Researchers. Yes, believe it or not!?
Our Body's Biochemistry (Natural) was not created to handle all those Chemical-Sweeteners and Industrial Oils. Indeed Not. Those very products that Claim to take the Weight off or keep it off have actually proven to Put it On. In fact, those Seed Oils often Stack on the Weight.
I will tell you what else "Stacks on the Weight" too. Maltodextrin, also called Dextrose has different functions in Processed Foods and is a Sweet Starch similar to HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) which is also BAD. But what's worse to look out for is, when the Manufacturers add Maltodextrin/Dextrose to a product, they can claim Zero Sugar on the Label and they get away with that. It's very misleading.
Hence the importance of consumers understanding that the label "Natural" or "Healthy" or "Zero Sugars"" does not always guarantee that a product is free from questionable ingredients, because those Companies so often Masquerade that way. Like I explain to people, they So Often say "No this, No that" on the front Label and "This, that and that" on the back of the Label.
Therefore, Consumers should stay Vigilant by reading the Ingredient Lists Carefully, even when purchasing items from the Health Food Aisle. I wish I could tell you things are improving but sad to say not. Talk about a Money Driven World? Even the Governments won't Stop them because they're too interested in Revenue.
Just think how many Foods and Beverages those Dodgy Sweeteners and Oils are in when we're Shopping, is absolutely Cringeworthy. So change over to REAL FOODS as much as you can, Folks - there's much less Checking to do and you know they are better for you.
You only Check them once, and then once again if the Label changes.
I'm telling my Readers that's the Best way to Shop now!