66 • happiful.com • September 2019
Any kind of ‘fat-burning’ foods, or
foods that ‘melt the pounds away’,
don’t exist. There is no such thing
as ‘fat-burning’ foods, and there is
no magical food that will lead to
instant weight loss. Food doesn’t
work like that. The language of
‘melting’ fat is incredibly strange,
and implies that the fat storesinside our body function the same
way as a slab of butter: work it
and warm it up, and it converts
from a solid to liquid state, which
then... leaves your body? As sweat?
No. Instead of encouraging rapid
weight loss, let’s instead focus on
health-promoting behaviours and
self-acceptance.“THIS FOOD MELTS FAT FAST!”
This statement has spread like
wildfire through the media
and social media. I can see
why; it’s a great soundbite. But
it’s also totally wrong. When
you trace it back to its origin
(which is not easy as one
article seems to get it from
another article, which copied
it from another article...) it
wasn’t a finding in a scientific,
peer-reviewed paper. It was
from an opinion piece. This
statement, which is shared
as fact, is simply one person’s
opinion. They didn’t even
back it up with any evidence.
This statement is simply
untrue, and the average life
expectancy is still going up
as medical diagnoses happen
earlier, treatments get better,
and communicable diseases
are hugely reduced. Who
knows, we might even bring it
up to 100 years old one day.“THIS IS THE FIRST
GENERATION THAT WON’T
LIVE LONGER THAN THEIR
PARENTS”