Reading food labels can help you lose the weight faster without having to make yourself crazy counting calories. The best reading food lablels tips from Michael Pollan author of the best selling book In Defense of Food.

Stick to Processed Foods with 5 or Less Ingredients This is by far the easiest tip you can follow because when you look at the back of a nutrition facts label you can clearly see how long the ingredients list is. My boyfriend recently bought veggie burgers for one of his daughters who is a vegetarian and he didn't look at the package until after he brought it home.

He almost flipped out when he turned the package over and noticed that one entire side of the package was covered with a list of ingredients we couldn't even pronounce. Not kidding, it was one entire side of the package and the writing was small. Your body needs food that it can process and utilize so be sure to follow this rule all the time if you want to lose weight quickly.

Say No to High Fructose Corn Syrup Don't you just love that campaign that's going around talking about how HFCS comes from corn and how natural and normal that is. What this commercial isn't telling you is how highly processed HFCS is and how much damage it does to your liver (which needs to function at 100% for you to lose weight and keep it off).

An article published on The Weston Price Foundation website explains that "fructose must be metabolized in the liver and the livers of rats who were exposed to a high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhotic." Your best bet is to stay away from this stuff and definitely get the entire truth about HFCS from a non-biased source. Check out Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.

Don't Buy Health Claims If a food product claims to do all kinds of wonderful things for your health and it sounds like a dream food that's going to help you get super healthy and melt away the fat then you can bet that company is paying more money on their marketing campaign than they are on the food in the package. Don't buy all the health claims no matter how good they look. Here's an even better way to tell if something is not fit for your body. If a baby or a dog rejects this so called health food then you know it's not good.

Learn how to eat for weightloss and optimum health with In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto