"Globally there are more than one-billion overweight adults and at least 300 million of them are obese." I wrote this in my book -- 52 Ways to a Healthy You -- as part of the introduction to a chapter dedicated to Jump Starting Your Metabolism with Herbs. Many people are on the perpetual quest to lose weight and to keep it off. Help is right under our noses. Mother Nature has created a few perfect fat-burning solutions.

It turns out, various plants, such as black pepper, have "thermogenic" gifts ... they kick your calorie burning mechanisms into a faster-than-normal "gear!" With statistics like those stated above, I would say we need all the help we can get!

What if I were to tell you if you included with every meal one tsp of a certain type of sauce along with one tsp of a specific spice that it would increase your metabolic rate by up to 25% per day: Would you do it? Indeed, it's true.

Want to find out what the mystery sauce and spice are? To learn more about Mother Nature's Fat Burning solutions, then check out this post I wrote for our Summer Slim Down Guide on 5 Natural Fat Burners.

Now will someone please pass the pepper so I can get my metabolic rate back up to speed!

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I'm a huge fan of using non-salt spices to make all those lovingly-prepared foods taste good without subjecting myself to all those fake, taste-enhancing chemicals used on so many processed foods these days.

Most food sold in pre-packaged containers is essentially "dead" with a shelf life of many months. So, to combat that fact, chemicals like MSG and others are used to give that taste that consumers have grown used to.

There is nothing wrong, however, by buying frozen vegetables and other meals (without a slew of chemicals) and using your own spice cabinet to pump up the taste. When I fix a whole-wheat sandwich with fresh vegetables, for example, garlic and pepper go on as the taste enhancers -- not meat filled with sodium nitrite and monosodium glutamate (yuck).

In a neat side note, how about becoming more sharper mentally by using spices regularly? That's a side effect worth using pepper and other spices (like majoram and oregano) all the "thyme."

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