We all know there are countless diet plans, fads, and programs all designed to help us lose weight and keep that weight off. Health guru Kevin Trudeau promotes one of the most popular plans that will teach you how to burn fat efficiently. His weight loss plan is not just a certain diet that you follow but is more of a daily eating lifestyle.

The body is not tooled to burn fat but rather to store it against possible lean times ahead. This helped primitive man survive but can keep modern man, and woman, too fat. We have to outsmart this built-in tendency to store fat by eating carefully and intelligently.

The diet secrets that were uncovered by an English physician more than 50 years ago were studied by Trudeau. These secrets found that the hypothalamus gland is very important in controlling a person's appetite. The gland makes hormones and these with others tell us when we are hungry and also are a way to burn fat.

There are ways to assist resetting the hypothalamus, encouraging it to help achieve weight loss goals rather than continuing to sabotage them. One method involves choosing foods that do not over-stimulate the gland or cause it to go into fat-storing mode. Sometimes this simply means avoiding simple sugars and other, less-complex, carbohydrates. Foods that are rich in fiber and complex carbs avoid the trigger for fat storage and lead to longer satisfaction.

Trudeau also recommends foods that he believes can stoke up the metabolic fire to burn fat actively. One food that turns up the thermostat is any kind of spicy chili pepper. Another he says has special enzymes that speed the burning is the grapefruit. Eating grapefruit during the day can, he says, calm hunger and speed fat burning. He also recommends sticking to organic foods and avoiding all artificial sweeteners.

Trudeau also strongly recommends that anyone who wants to burn fat and lose weight not eat after six in the evening, as this may have tendencies to more fat storage. Another Trudeau standard is using colon cleansing to fine tune the metabolism by removing built up toxic materials in the bowels. Trudeau believes ending eating early and maintaining a healthy, clean colon are needed as well as eating the right foods and dodging the wrong ones for controlling your weight as a lifelong process.