The Worst Calories

By Craig Ballantyne

What are the worst calories you can put in your body if you want to lose fat? Liquid calories. Not only do they add up quickly without suppressing your hunger, liquid calories often come in the form of sugar.

Researchers from Purdue University tested the appetite-suppressing effects of various liquid foods in lean and obese men and women. When the subjects were allowed to eat or drink as much as they wanted, they consumed 12 to 15 percent more calories in liquid form. For example, if given the choice between eating a piece of fruit or drinking the fruit juice, they consumed more calories when they chose the juice.

Liquid calories just don't fill us up as fast as real food does. So when it's a choice of an apple or apple juice, for example, always go with the solid source of calories.

Indian Word to the Wise: Pundit

In India, a "pandit" is a learned man, an expert or scholar. In the West, we adopted this word as "pundit" (PUN-dit).

Example (as used by Dutch athlete Ruud van Nistelroov): "Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it."
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