“We’ve seen how you can gain weight with eating fast food, but what about the other end of the spectrum? Can you lose weight with fast food? Yes: We think of choices in terms of the major ones: what job should I take? Who should I marry? Each choice we make moves us down one road or another.

It’s the little choices we make day in and day out that dictate the kind of life we live and ultimately, the kind of health we enjoy. Food is vital for life to make energy. If your body were a temple, you would not put poisons or anything toxic in it. You would think carefully and choose with tremendous diligence what you put into it. Your body is given to you so that you can make careful choices about what you put into it. You really are what you eat. Your mid section can be a lean cut of beef or a doughy roll. Your but can be shaped like an onion or a bunion. What you ingest has an impact that can add or subtract years to your life. Fortunately, you have the power to pick and choose what foods will fuel your body.

For the millions of consumers around the planet that checked off weight-loss as their number one goal during the New Year, the resounding retail numbers are staggering in favor of two of the leading diet pills: Alli (a newer diet pill made by GlaxoSmithKline), and Phenocal, (a groundbreaking diet pill manufactured by Pharmaxa Labs–a leading nutraceutical company). In light of many diet pill recalls, combined with the many side effects that are associated with popular prescribed weight-loss drugs, the high sales of both Phenocal and Alli should come as no surprise. Both are available over-the-counter, and both are void of any dangerous side effects. However, Alli is a fat-blocker, and works by using enzymes in the body to block a quarter of the fat that is ingested, whereas Phenocal actually suppresses the appetite and boosts the metabolic and fat-burning potential of the body. Similarly, both supplements are taken by mouth daily.