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It’s just so easy to say ‘Fats and oils are high in calories so cut them out and you’ll lose weight.’ This only makes people start cutting out the fats they can see: butter and margarine, cream, cooking and salad oils, meat fat and even the skin from chickens. In fact, eaten in moderation, none of these are a problem. It is hidden fats—the fats you can’t see— that really pile on the pounds. Foods with large amounts of hidden fat include:

 Biscuits and cookies

 Burgers

 Cakes

 Chocolate

 Creamy dips

 Creamy desserts

 Crispy snacks

 Deep-fried food

 Ice cream

 Pies and pastries

 Sausages and salami

For instance, have you ever read a recipe for making chocolate brownies? Most brownie recipes contain even more fat and sugar than they do flour. Every portion of pastry or pie-crust you consume probably contains at least two tablespoons of pure fat. You can’t see it, but just try pressing a few crumbs on a piece of paper and see the grease spots appear. Burgers can easily consist of up to 70 per cent invisible fat. Burger meat can quite legally be described as ‘lean’ even if it contains up to 30 per cent fat. Imagine how hard it is to lose weight if you keep eating too many foods like this. And imagine what they do to your skin—making it greasy and prone to blackheads as a result of clogged pores. Too much saturated fat also affects your blood circulation, and this is bad news for cells that make collagen. As you know, skin sags and shrinks when your collagen starts to deteriorate. You need to feed your collagen-making cells with the right food in order to stay looking young as long as possible.

High-fat foods also tend to make you feel sluggish. Vitality is attractive, but its opposite—sluggishness—is not!

The Big Healthy Soup Diet aims to make it easier for you to stop eating high-fat junk foods. One of its techniques is to include a healthy proportion of good quality oils, and occasionally even a little cream. When strictly controlled, these fats make weight-loss much easier.

They make your soups substantial, filling and delicious. If you find yourself craving junk food, have another helping of soup and the craving will be much less. It will cease to be a physical craving.