Taking Back Your Power
Obesity is reaching a global crisis point where today one in five U.S. deaths is related to obesity. By 2025, an estimated 20 percent of the global adult population, 40 percent of British and nearly 45 percent of American adults will be obese. Carrying excess weight guarantees you’ll suffer from health problems such as diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, and heart attacks. Worldwide, obesity is responsible for half a million cancers each year. Taking back your power and ending this obesity endemic is paramount now more so than ever.
Our grocery stores are filled with fake, processed, and refined foods pumped with artificial colors, preservatives, GMO (genetically modified organisms), MSG (monosodium glutamate), HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup), and all sorts of other chemicals one has no clue what they are! It has become normal that most of us don’t even question it.
What’s really causing obesity?
An underactive thyroid, high cortisol levels (stress hormone) and other hormonal imbalances, as well as certain medicines, environmental chemicals, stress, lack of exercise and inadequate sleep are all contributors to obesity. Not getting enough sleep leads to cravings for sweets and starch foods, due to an increase in cortisol.
One of the latest studies linking antibiotics to weight gain found that children who took antibiotics seven or more times before the age of 15 weighed an average of three pounds more than those with no history of antibiotic use. However, the primary source of antibiotic exposure is actually through your diet. The U.S. uses nearly 30 million pounds of antibiotics each year to raise food animals, accounting for about 80 percent of all antibiotics used in the U.S.
The least looked at cause for obesity is the person’s mindset- what’s the wound within that is causing one to hold onto weight? Will power is not enough if there is an emotional trauma that needs to be addressed buried underneath all that weight. What is the weight protecting you from and what is being covered up? These are all things to examine when unraveling the reasons for weight gain. However, the most dangerous reason of weight gain may be right under your nose- and that’s your diet.
Obesity Is A Malnourishment Issue
You may overeat but you are nutritionally starved! What you eat makes a big difference in how much you eat. The more nutrient dense your food the less of it you will need. A high carb processed diet high in sugar and lacking any essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients, with poor quality protein and low in healthy fats is the perfect recipe for obesity.
The biggest breakthrough one has to have is on what they perceive as real food. The truth is that processed and fast food is not real food. It’s poison to your beautiful body. Your body is not equipped to be under constant stress trying to detoxify these chemicals that naturally do not belong in our food. As a survival mechanism your body stores all these toxins into fat tissue.
Cut Out the Soda
How much soda are you drinking? Drinking soda is one of the quickest ways to get on the obesity fast track. A 20-ounce bottle of cola contains 16 teaspoons of sugar in the form of HFCS, a cheap and unhealthy corn-derived sweetener, likely GMO. Diet soda is not any better, it contains sweeteners like aspartame, which has 92 documented side effects! Twenty minutes after drinking your cola your liver converts this sugar into fat. Research suggests sugary beverages alone are to blame for about 183,000 deaths worldwide each year.
Stop Counting Calories, Starving Yourself, and Eating Low Fat
Counting calories is a thing of the past! Instead become an expert in reading ingredients. Don’t starve yourself either- eating less and doing more does not work. The minute you start eating again, you’ll gain back all the weight you lost plus 10 percent more! Stay away from low fat, this fad contributes to the obesity epidemic. Saturated fat has been confused with trans fat. Although trans fat increases your risk of premature death, heart disease, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, saturated fat is not the cause of diseases.
Why does unhealthy food even exist?
There is a relationship between federal food policies and agricultural subsidies that promote the manufacture and consumption of addictive junk food. Corn, wheat, soybeans and rice are the top four most heavily government-issued agricultural subsidies. That’s why you find these GMO grains and HFCS in all conventional food products.
What You Can Do
Eat real organic food and prepare your meals at home. Join a local CSA and get to know your local organic and biodynamic farmers. You can order your meat from organic farms, most ship from different states. It’s more expensive but you don’t need animal protein with every meal. Get your natural spring water from local springs and drink up because chances are you’re not hungry you’re thirsty.
Your genetics tell your story and there are genetic tests available that will help you determine what percentage of fat, carbs and protein you should be eating, as well as which type of exercise is best for you. Exercise, sweat regularly, and make detoxing a part of your lifestyle. Do a micronutrient testing to determine which vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants need to be restored in your body. Learn to intermittent fast and give your digestive system a break.
Dr. Mercola believes that once you get net carbs well below 50 grams along with a moderate protein intake of 30-60 grams, and add high quality fats like avocados, butter, coconut oil, macadamia and pecans, your body will start to wake up its fat burning metabolism, and it will become virtually impossible to be overweight.
Beating the obesity endemic is something we, the people, have to do ourselves.
In Zoe Harcombe’s book, The Obesity Epidemic, she states, “Every one of us can bankrupt the fake food industry and put the drug companies out of business by taking charge of our own health and say, We’re just not having that junk.”
The less junk in our bodies, the healthier we will be.
