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<\/a>Pictured: The alleged solution for the obesity epidemic.<\/p><\/div>\n
This is ridiculous.\u00a0 First off, there is no food that will “not allow the fat to accumulate” on the body.\u00a0 Fat doesn’t accumulate–\u00a0 Fat is stored.\u00a0 You have an amount of fat cells in your body, and if you gain weight \/ fat, those fat cells fill with oil.\u00a0 If you lose weight, those fat cells don’t go away. . .\u00a0 They simply release and oxidize that oil.\u00a0 The person that came up with this outrageous claim probably believes that eating fatty foods will lead to fat gain because fat will “accumulate” in your body, but that is a myth as well.<\/p>\n
Weight gain and weight loss in normal, healthy individuals is a simple numbers game.\u00a0 Your body expends a certain amount of energy throughout the day–\u00a0 If you eat more energy (Fun fact: A calorie is a unit of energy) than you expend, you will gain weight;\u00a0 If you eat less energy than you expend, you will lose weight.\u00a0 If we don’t account for body types and depressed metabolisms (from Chronic Dieting), it is that simple.\u00a0 So the claim that it will reduce weight even when eating a high calorie diet?\u00a0 Wrong.<\/p>\n
Also, “it reduces the weight of even the most obese person.<\/strong>”\u00a0 What!?\u00a0 So they’re claiming that this is a thermogenic (fat burning) food?\u00a0 What’s interesting is that honey is comprised of 100% carbs;\u00a0 Carbs are the least thermogenic of the macro nutrients.\u00a0 Ridiculous.\u00a0 For the record, protein is generally accepted as the most thermogenic food (Though some studies claim fat is); The one consistency to all of these studies is that carbs come in last.<\/p>\nSo what will happen if you eat that concoction twice a day?\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 You will eat honey and cinnamon, which is more calories than you (probably) would have eaten otherwise.\u00a0 If anything, if you don’t put a lot of cinnamon in this (as cinnamon can help control blood sugar), you will make your body fattier as you may be spiking your blood sugar and forcing an insulin response multiple times per day.\u00a0 (Honey has a very high glycemic load;\u00a0 I eat honey only when I want to spike my blood sugar.)<\/p>\n
“But Gabriel, how do you explain my mailman’s dog’s best friend who lost weight with this LOL?”\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0 They made a lifestyle adjustment separate from the honey cinnamon that helped them to lose weight.\u00a0 (I crafted that hypothetical rebuttal myself–\u00a0 I haven’t heard of anyone even doing this.)<\/p>\n
If anything claims you will lose weight with no effort, it lies;\u00a0 If anything claims that it will drastically cut the time it takes to achieve your goals, it’s probably not going to.\u00a0 If you chase after fad diets and crazy concoctions, the amount of time you spend on all of that could have been used simply changing your lifestyle, and then you would see real results.<\/p>\n
It’s worth noting that there are many other (claimed) benefits of a Cinnamon Honey concoction–\u00a0 I’m not addressing a single one of those. . .\u00a0 Just the incorrect claim that it can help you lose weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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