Although there are currently an abundance of regimes and diets to help people lose weight permanently, a consistently popular method is the one created by well-known author and health commentator Kevin Trudeau, which helps you burn fat more efficiently. Trudeau's program is not a specific diet but rather a change in the way you approach eating.

Our bodies instinctive store fat as a reserve against future lean times. Because we didn't burn fat indiscriminately, this instinct served primitive man well. Modern men and women, however, don't need to store fat any longer and are thus often overweight. Eating carefully and intelligently will help us avoid this tendency to store fat.

Trudeau learned the secrets of successful dieting, first discovered by an English doctor more than fifty years ago. These secrets focus on the actions of the hypothalamus gland, the part of the brain that controls our appetites. Hormones that are produced by it, as well as others that work for it, signal our body to burn fat or store it, and affect our ability to control hunger.

There are several techniques that will help you reset your hypothalamus so that it aids, not hinders, your weight control goals. One simple method is to avoid choosing food that over-stimulate the hypothalamus into storing food as fat. To follow this method, avoid simple sugars and carbohydrates. Instead, choose foods rich in fiber and full of complex carbohydrates that absorb slowly. This easy food choice will limit the amount of food stored as fat.

Foods that stoke up the metabolic fire and burn fat actively are also recommended by Trudeau. One particular ingredient that bumps up the thermostat is spicy chili pepper of any kind. Grapefruit, he says, has special enzymes that also speed up the metabolism. Eating this fruit during the day can reduce hunger pangs and increase fat burning. Trudeau also recommends organic foods whenever possible and staying away from 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.