We all know there are countless diet plans, fads, and programs all designed to help us lose weight and keep that weight off. Health guru Kevin Trudeau promotes one of the most popular plans that will teach you how to burn fat efficiently. His weight loss plan is not just a certain diet that you follow but is more of a daily eating lifestyle.

The body is designed to retain food energy not to burn fat. This tendency to store food as fat helped primitive people survive, but it means modern men and women have an uphill battle against fat. We need to find a way around our in-built tendency to store fat by making careful and intelligent diet choices.

Trudeau has learned something that was discovered by a doctor in England over half a century ago that aids in utilizing control of the appetite through understanding the hypothalamus gland. This gland produces hormones that regulate, along with other organs in the system, things such as hunger and how our bodies burn fat or store fat

There are many ways to reset your hypothalamus so that your body is better able to achieve the proper weight. For example, switch to foods that don't trigger the hypothalamus to store fat. This means cutting out simple sugars and syrups. Instead, look for foods that are high in fiber and complex carbohydrates. These types of foods are more slowly absorbed by the body and do not signal the hypothalamus to store fat.

Trudeau also recommends foods that he believes can stoke up the metabolic fire to burn fat actively. One food that turns up the thermostat is any kind of spicy chili pepper. Another he says has special enzymes that speed the burning is the grapefruit. Eating grapefruit during the day can, he says, calm hunger and speed fat burning. He also recommends sticking to organic foods and avoiding all artificial sweeteners.

Trudeau makes two more suggestions: avoiding food after six in the evening and detoxifying the body through colon cleansing. Eating late may be more likely to store fat than eating during earlier hours in the day. A body that has fewer toxins is advocated since it creates a more efficient "machine" with an increased metabolism. Combining these actions with the knowledge of foods to avoid and which to emphasis, these suggestions are the cure Trudeau recommends for anyone who desires to achieve real weight control for life and burn fat.