The #1 Scam That Makes You Fat

Imagine you sign a lease to rent an apartment, and as you’re moving in, you discover your rent money only covers the living room and the closet. To actually use the kitchen, the bedroom, and the bath, you’ll have to pay two or three times what you’d agreed to.

You’d be pretty ticked off, huh?

Well, something like that is happening right now in America’s restaurants and supermarkets, but instead of costing you money, these rip-offs are costing you your health and your waistline.

See, food manufacturers know that you want to eat healthy, so they’re doing everything they can to make their bad-for-you foods look good for you. And their number-one trick is to play with serving size: listing foods as lower in calories than they really are by claiming they serve more people than they really do. In other words, you’ll buy a food, and then discover that if you want to eat everything you bought, you have to pay two, three, even four times the amount of calories you thought you were bargaining for.

Take a look below at some of the hidden fees the food industry is applying to your waistline, compliments of the new Eat This, Not That! 2012. And if you've already been victimized by serving sizes, as evidenced by your serving bowl for a belly, we've got your new weight loss plan right here: Belly Off! 2012, a free diet plan, exercise program, and community that will help you drop 10, 20, or even 30 pounds while still eating the foods you love. Check it out!

#9 Serving Size Rip-Off: SoBe Energize, Citrus Energy

Listed calories: 110
Servings per bottle: 2.5
Total calories: 275

Sure, this bottle will give you energy—it's called a sugar buzz. One SoBe Energize contains 67.5 grams of sweet stuff, or the equivalent of about 25 Hershey's Kisses. That buzz will last about half an hour, and in the process, flood your body with sugar and insulin, setting into motion a metabolic reaction that will plump up the fat cells around your tummy. Truth is, individual-sized drink bottles are notorious for listing multiple servings on what everybody assumes to be a one-person drink. But have you ever grabbed a bottle from a vending machine and split it with a buddy? Or saved half for another day? Of course not.

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