There are chemists and geneticists working on engineering chemicals to vaccinate against weight gain. Eventually, you may be inoculated at birth against excessive poundage. But that's a few decades off. In today's world, weight gain is almost inevitable. Restaurants offer prodigious portions. Snack foods abound. Fast food is never low-fat.

Even fat-free and low-carb foods are high in their sugar content. Soda is loaded with calories, like beer and wine. Sun where you turn? Fruits and juices? Wrong, because they are too caloric natural. You can on celery or lettuce for a long life they are low in everything? Of course, they are tasteless and unsatisfying. The same with some cereals and tofu. It must be a better way.

If you decide not to change your diet and the thought of exercise makes that throw you want, maybe you're on the right track. Anorexia is, you should empty your stomach and allow you to eat what you want. Of course, you could lose your teeth from acid reflux and have other side affects, but so what? You will lose weight. Fine, so that may not be the answer. Oprah has endorsed Hoodia, the latest wonder drug. But long-term studies have not shown it safe. No diet pill has only ever done the trick.

Okay, I've teased you long enough. It's time to reveal the secret and essence of this article. But first I want to return with my wife. She reached 325 pounds and had her doctor's blessing, gastric bypass surgery. In the first three months she lost 80 pounds. Within the first four months she lost her life. She died at the age of 55 years of a heart attack, caused by decades of obesity and the toll it took on her heart. Which brings me to the real secret. Death. It is the first three letters of "diet." There you have it. Now you never need to gain weight and not with all that stress, diet and exercise to be disturbed. Finally, it was for them. Now before I get hate e-mail responses, let me explain.

Act now and do the right thing. You begin to rid your house of junk food, a walk and watch the parts. Forget pills, diet powders and so-called miracle cures. Make a lifestyle change and commit to a new and better you. That's the real secret weight loss success without sugar-coating, pardon the pun.