The weight loss industry grows by 6% a year. The increase in obesity is about 6% per year!
As obesity takes an epidemic proportions among adults and children, the health establishment responds with a plethora of mind- boggling diets designed to help you loose weight. Low calorie, low fat, low carbohydrate, blood typing , glycemic index and other theories attempt to explain weight gain and weight loss. Each camp insists being right. the end result is a cacophony of conflicting deitary ideas.
While a lot of these diets do make scientific sense at least in part, they fail to address some fundamental issue. In order to address these fundamentals, one needs to go beyond the familiar " diet and excercise " mantra.
There are three hidden causes for our over weight / obesity epidemic.
THE "CLOGGED LIVER" SYNDROME:-
What does your liver have to do with being overweight? Your liver performs many digestive and energy-balancing functions. It stores energy for future use in the form of glycogen. It detoxifies your blood by removing chemicals, drugs and bacteria of all types. The liver manufactures bile to digest the fats you eat. But if your liver is clogged with excess toxins and fats, it slows down and can't perform its vital functions efficiently.
If you are serious about getting healthy and loosing weight , you need to tend your liver.
SOLUTION:- Cleanse, detoxify and flush the liver. One simple way to go on a vegetable juice program for 3to 5 days. During this time, you will only consume raw vegetable juices and eat raw vegetables (if you feel like having solid food).Good vegetables to juice are: carrots, cabbage, broccoli, spinach, green beans, cucumbers, etc.
As obesity takes an epidemic proportions among adults and children, the health establishment responds with a plethora of mind- boggling diets designed to help you loose weight. Low calorie, low fat, low carbohydrate, blood typing , glycemic index and other theories attempt to explain weight gain and weight loss. Each camp insists being right. the end result is a cacophony of conflicting deitary ideas.While a lot of these diets do make scientific sense at least in part, they fail to address some fundamental issue. In order to address these fundamentals, one needs to go beyond the familiar " diet and excercise " mantra.
There are three hidden causes for our over weight / obesity epidemic.
- THE "OVERFED/ UNDERNOURISHED " SYNDROME:-
The foods we eat today contain less than 30% of the nutritional value they once had (due to depleted soil conditions, for example).Add to this the fact that a lot of our foods are refined, stripping them of whatever little nutritional value they had to begin with. For example, foods such as white rice, white sugar, and white flour rob the body of precious B-vitamins that the body has to give up from its stores in order to metabolize them. The end result is that these foods 'fil' us without 'nourishing' us. This leads to constant hunger at the cellular level.
That's why dieting by eating less of the same "nutrient - poor" foods doesn't work. Salads won't do the trick either. Your body is constantly looking for a serious nutritional boost (to undo years of "dieficit - eating"). To provide this you need to look beyond the realm of normal food and into the realm of superfoods. These foods are packed with rare trace minerals, potent enzymes, absorbable protein, essential fatty acids, and powerful antioxidants.
Superfoods will satisfy your cellular hunger and replenish nutrient stores depleted from years of eating refined foods. As a result, your hunger pangs(at last) will subside, without an ounce of willpower! You' ll loose weight effortlessly.
SOLUTION:- Include these superfoods in your diet : Alfalfa grass, barley grass, oat grass, and wheat grass. Grow them at home or buy some of them at health food stores and specialty shops. Sprouts can also provide nutritional boost. - THE "CRAVING FOR REFINED FOODS" SYNDROME:-
Do you crave processed foods high in sugar, wheat, yeast, or fat? You may think these cravings are caused due to lack of willpower. In fact, the number one cause for cravings is undiagonised food sensivity or allergy.
How can food sensivity cause cravings? If you are sensitive to a certain food, the body protects itself from symptoms such as fatigue and digestive upset by releasing narcotic like chemicals called opioids that give you a pleasurable feeling. You get addicted to this feeling and unknowingly seek out foods that make you euphoric. Unfortunately, these are usually processed, chemical - laden foods like cakes, sweets, packaged bread, pasta, biscuits, bottled juices, colas etc.
A sure sign you are caught in a various 'opioid cycle' is that you eat the sme 'favorie' foods throughout the week. Most allergy sufferers eat a diet consisting of 30 foods or less.... which they eat over and over. But it goes worse. In order to protect you from these invading food allergens, your fat cells bloat up and act as buffers between the toxic chemicals and your organs.Your body hangs onto that fat to keep you from poisoning yourself. As a result, You are lugging around pounds of toxins and fat cell ' buffers'.
Go ahead and cut your calorie intake. It won't free you from cravings. It won't desensitive you against your ' trigger ' foods. And it won't release that stored fat! The only way to free yourself from cravings and burn off that stubborn fat is to reverse the cause, not just treat the outward symptoms.
SOLUTION:-Through a process of elimination, identify and get rid of the trigger foods that are responsible for your cravings. Here are some common culprits: white floor, white sugar, dairy products, soy products, wheat and gluten.
What does your liver have to do with being overweight? Your liver performs many digestive and energy-balancing functions. It stores energy for future use in the form of glycogen. It detoxifies your blood by removing chemicals, drugs and bacteria of all types. The liver manufactures bile to digest the fats you eat. But if your liver is clogged with excess toxins and fats, it slows down and can't perform its vital functions efficiently.
If you are serious about getting healthy and loosing weight , you need to tend your liver.
SOLUTION:- Cleanse, detoxify and flush the liver. One simple way to go on a vegetable juice program for 3to 5 days. During this time, you will only consume raw vegetable juices and eat raw vegetables (if you feel like having solid food).Good vegetables to juice are: carrots, cabbage, broccoli, spinach, green beans, cucumbers, etc.
By including superfoods in your diet, avoiding the opioid cycle, and maintaining a clean liver, your health will improve dramatically and the weight will come off effortlessly! It may seem difficult at first, but experiance will tell you it is not.