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Losing Weight and Toxic Chemicals
And Why Didn't You Lose Weight
This Week?
Jean Shaw© -
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I've just attended my first slimming class. I went along with my mother who's a veteran.
She's been a yo-
People used to believe if you consumed less calories
than your body needed then you would lose weight but now the focus appears to have
shifted somewhat.
There are numerous diets, slimming and eating plans around, some
healthy and others downright ridiculous. However, they all claim to work -
I have never been slim but eat very little in comparison with everyone
else I know. I'm told I store fat because my body thinks it's in starvation mode
all the time.
Sitting in the class I listened to the excuses people gave for not
having lost weight and was surprised how many people suffered from "selective amnesia".
However, it's just possible there may be a very good reason for that and it's not
an excuse anyone in the class used.
Perhaps it's the synthetic chemicals in food,
skin care and detergents, and before you think I've gone absolutely mad, there is
a lot of evidence to suggest this may indeed be the case.
How many people do you know whose memory is not as good as it used to be and who
Are tired all the time
Have aching joints
Sudden high blood pressure
Middle aged
spread?
And how many of them put their symptoms down
to the inevitable signs of aging
and the need for
more exercise and a healthy diet?
They could be right. On the other
hand every
time you feel tired, get a headache or put on
an extra pound it could be
a tell-
toxins are building up faster than your body
can clear them.
We are surrounded by toxins. They are in the food we eat, the air we breathe, our
medications, household goods, clothing, beauty products and even in the beds in which
we sleep.
Every year the world grows more and more toxic and our bodies have to work
harder to remove them.
Current estimates suggest each year men and women are gaining
weight by 225g and 450g respectively despite the many diets they undertake.
Fat is
one of the body's protective mechanisms against toxins. When you ingest toxins, albeit
from pesticides or food preservatives, you gain weight as a means of protecting
the
cells.
Toxic synthetic chemicals are highly fat soluble. When we are exposed to them
the body creates fat to safely store the ones it cannot process and eliminate away.
Your body is a sponge for toxins so think about that the next time you stand barefoot
on a recently fertilised lawn or newly carpeted room. Take care when you fill your
car with petrol, shower in chlorinated tap water or put on a freshly dry cleaned
shirt.
And what about all those household cleaning products you use without wearing
protective gloves and all those beauty products you put on your skin? Health and
beauty aren't always synonymous.
Remember -
Exposure to large quantities can result in acute poisoning but it's the long term
exposure to much lower levels which makes it increasingly difficult for us to control
our own weight.
We end up getting fatter even if we eat less food.
In today's society
we appear to be more interested in the size and appearance of our food than the actual
nutritional content. Unless you choose organic products you will be exposed to pesticides,
insecticides, herbicides, growth promotants and goodness knows what else.
Carbamates
are a synthetic chemical used in insecticides and herbicides to promote food growth.
They are also given to battery farmed livestock to slow down their metabolic rate
and fatten them up.
So what happens when we eat the produce containing these carbamates?
You've guessed it -
It appears therefore that the calories we need to reduce to lose weight
are the chemical ones.
Seemingly the highest slimming nutrients are found in organically
grown produce.
It is recommended food, skincare, cosmetics and household products
containing toxic synthetic chemicals be replaced with organic products.
As it's unlikely
I'll change my entire lifestyle within the next week I think I've got a good excuse
if I don't lose weight, don't you?